Municipality of Topeiros - History, nature, development, sea, mountains, tourism, sports and relaxation of this town.
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Xanthi Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Xanthi
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) 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 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Xanthi The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Xanthi
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Xanthi You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Xanthi
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Xanthi In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley 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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Xanthi
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Xanthi "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Xanthi
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Xanthi "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Xanthi
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Xanthi "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Xanthi
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Xanthi Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Xanthi
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Xanthi "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Xanthi
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Xanthi "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Xanthi
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Xanthi War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Xanthi
