Preveli Monastery - Also known as Monastery of Saint John the Theologian, information about history and architecture, the museum with icons and relics, war memorial.
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "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) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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-- Tom Robbins When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
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"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 It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
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-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Society and Culture
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright 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 greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Society and Culture
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Society and Culture
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Society and Culture I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Society and Culture Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Society and Culture
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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Society and Culture 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 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Society and Culture
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad 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 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Society and Culture In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Society and Culture
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Society and Culture The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold 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 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Society and Culture
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
