The Holy Metropolis of Zakynthos and Strofadon - Website of the highly controversial (yet very reverent) Bishop Chrysostome of Zakynthos; monasteries and publications are also referred.
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Religion An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Religion
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Religion Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Religion
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Religion Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey 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,
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Religion
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 mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Religion What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Religion
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr 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 Religion The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Religion
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Religion People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Religion
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer 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 I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Religion An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Religion
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Religion "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Religion
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Religion Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Religion
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Religion He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Religion
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Religion What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Religion
