"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "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) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Central Greece Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Central Greece
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers 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 Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Central Greece What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Central Greece
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Central Greece As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Central Greece
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Central Greece 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 The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Central Greece
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Central Greece To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Central Greece
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "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) Central Greece There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Central Greece
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Central Greece Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Central Greece
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Central Greece Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Central Greece
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Central Greece Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Central Greece
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Central Greece The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Central Greece
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Central Greece "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Central Greece
