Cookie Recipe - This Greek recipe comes from Crete. It is a filled cookie with a filling of walnuts, almonds, sesame seeds, and honey.
Crete by Michele Macrakis - Personal site highlighting various topics of the Cretan cultural life, history, and photography.
Crete Island Talk - General Cretan message board; topics include business, travel, news, and general chat.
Socio-Economic Definition of Crete - Includes population and employment statistics and diagrams pertaining to local development and the tourism industry analysis.
Greek Recipes - Find out how to make several traditional Greek and Cretan dishes; also includes a photo gallery.
A Photo Guide to Crete - Offers a poem dedicated to the island, highlighted with photos.
Creternity.com - Offering articles on Cretan history, culture and music. Includes an interactive forum discussing local and global issues.
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Society and Culture
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "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) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Society and Culture Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Society and Culture
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Society and Culture
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back 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 "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Society and Culture "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Society and Culture
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "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) Society and Culture
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Society and Culture Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Society and Culture An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Society and Culture
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Society and Culture For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture
