Tarrha Glass - Glass workshop based in Anogia, specializing in glass table ware, unique pieces and architectural glass. With presentation of the artists and their work, contact information and links.
Yakinthia Festival - Official homepage of the Yakinthia Festival of Music, Art and Theater in Anogia, every year 1st week of July at the Saint Yakinthos chapel in the Psiloritis mountains.
Carnival in Rethymno - Impressions of the annual Carnival in Rethymnon with pictures, sounds and links to the teams.
Centre for Contemporary Art - The Municipal Gallery L. Kanakakis has a permanent collection of works, information about exhibitions and artists.
Byzantine Hagiography - A painter's site about Sacred Icons, wall paintings and decoration.
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- Cicero Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
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Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
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-- François de La Rouch Arts and Entertainment
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
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-- Zora Neale Hurston Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
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-- Gore Vidal I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
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-- Thoreau Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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-- Fred Astaire Arts and Entertainment
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- Molly Ivins "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
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-- P. J. O'Rourke The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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- Sir Winston Churchill There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
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-- Joan Collins If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Arts and Entertainment
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
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-- Ernest Dimnet He who laughs last thinks slowest.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
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