Thrace the Land of Orpheus - This is an almost complete journey to the area of Greek Thace with complete publication, touristic information, art culture, music, paintings, dromena, a lot of links in Greek and English language.
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Guides and Directories "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Guides and Directories
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday 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 "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Guides and Directories The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Guides and Directories
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Guides and Directories The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Guides and Directories
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Guides and Directories "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Guides and Directories "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Guides and Directories
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Guides and Directories The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Guides and Directories
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Guides and Directories The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Guides and Directories Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Guides and Directories
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Guides and Directories "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Guides and Directories To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Guides and Directories
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Guides and Directories What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Guides and Directories
