Argos Animal Welfare Society - Formed in 1996 by animal lovers who decided to unite their forces to ease the suffering of the thousands of stray animals in Thessaloniki and suburbs (Greece). We run a small Recovery Shelter where up to 15 animals are cared for on a 24-hours basis.
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Animal Welfare "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Animal Welfare
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Animal Welfare Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Animal Welfare
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Animal Welfare Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Animal Welfare
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Animal Welfare "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. 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
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Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Animal Welfare Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Animal Welfare
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Animal Welfare All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Animal Welfare
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Animal Welfare Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Animal Welfare
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Animal Welfare When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Animal Welfare
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Animal Welfare "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Animal Welfare
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Animal Welfare Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous 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 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Animal Welfare
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Animal Welfare In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Animal Welfare
