The Region of Viotia - General information, addresses, events and links for the Prefecture of Viotia.
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Guides and Directories Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Guides and Directories
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Guides and Directories Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Guides and Directories
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) 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) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Guides and Directories "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Guides and Directories
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Guides and Directories The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Guides and Directories
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Guides and Directories If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Guides and Directories
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Guides and Directories Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Guides and Directories Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker 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,
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Guides and Directories
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton 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 be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Guides and Directories Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guides and Directories
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Guides and Directories Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
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