Union of Local Authorities of Crete - Overview of the activities of the local authorities of Crete, with historical data, literature and current projects.
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Government "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Government
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Government Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Government
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Government "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Government
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Government When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Government
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "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) Government Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Government
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "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 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Government Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Government
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "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 There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Government
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 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 A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz 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 Government I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Government
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 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Government When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Government
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Government Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Government
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Government Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Government
