Prefecture of Pella - Clickable map with museum, historical places and monuments.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Pella I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Pella
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Pella Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Pella
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Pella "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Pella
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Pella If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Pella
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Pella Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pella
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Pella "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Pella
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Pella I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Pella
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Pella I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pella
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Pella 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 Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Pella
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Pella We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pella
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Pella Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Pella
