Oreivatein - The full guide of the Greek mountains: index, maps, charts, photographs, expeditions, refuges, ski centers and library.
Snowboarding in Greece - With links about skiing centers, snowboarding competitions and greek snowboarders.
Skiing in Greece - Comprehensive information on the sport in Greece.
Snow Report - Reports for the Hellenic Ski Centres with links and snow cameras.
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Skiing Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "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) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Skiing
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Skiing "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Skiing
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Skiing I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Skiing
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Skiing Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Skiing
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "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) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Skiing The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler .. 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 Skiing
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "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) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Skiing The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Skiing
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Skiing Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Skiing
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Skiing The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Skiing
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Skiing Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Skiing
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) 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 A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Skiing "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Skiing
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is a rest period between romances. The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Skiing Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Skiing
