Samos by Sandy Nieuwenhof - Includes galleries of landscapes, special events, and people from the region.
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Maps and Views "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Maps and Views
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Maps and Views Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Maps and Views
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Maps and Views "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Maps and Views
What's new? Most of my wife. Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Maps and Views A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Maps and Views
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Maps and Views More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Maps and Views
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Maps and Views "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Maps and Views
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Maps and Views Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "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) Maps and Views
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb >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 Maps and Views Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev 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, Maps and Views
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 Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Maps and Views Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Maps and Views
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Maps and Views "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Maps and Views
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Maps and Views "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Maps and Views
