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The Sarakinado Culture Center - The purpose of the group is to preserve and expand the popular traditions of the people of Zakynthos. With information about various cultural and art forms of the island.
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Society and Culture Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Society and Culture
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) 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 Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal 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 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Society and Culture "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) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Society and Culture
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) My other wife is beautiful. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Society and Culture You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. 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) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Society and Culture A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Society and Culture "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Society and Culture
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Society and Culture
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Society and Culture
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Society and Culture
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Society and Culture "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Society and Culture
