Skiathos Fun - Guide to area recreation, shops, accommodations, and water sports.
Skiathos Holidays - Guide to the island offering information about beaches, places to see, where to eat, and weather. With photo gallery.
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Guides and Directories Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Guides and Directories
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Guides and Directories The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Guides and Directories
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Guides and Directories "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Guides and Directories Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Guides and Directories
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Guides and Directories
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Guides and Directories Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Guides and Directories
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Guides and Directories Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Guides and Directories
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Guides and Directories During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Guides and Directories
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Guides and Directories They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Guides and Directories
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Directories Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Guides and Directories What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
