Municipality of Skiathos - Official site providing information about island's history, culture, tourism and events.
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Skiathos People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Skiathos
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Skiathos A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Skiathos
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Skiathos You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Skiathos
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Skiathos No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Skiathos
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Skiathos My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Skiathos
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Skiathos Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Skiathos
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Skiathos Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Skiathos
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Skiathos I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Skiathos
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Skiathos A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Skiathos
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Skiathos "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Skiathos
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Skiathos When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Skiathos
