The Monasticism of Mount Athos - History, spirituality, and theology of Mount Athos, with images, discussion, and travel instructions.
Mount Athos - Histories and visitor information for this remarkable cluster of early monasteries from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, via sensitive map or list.
Mount Athos: The Holy Mountain - A guided tour of this flourishing ecclesiastical community by Macedonian Heritage. History, art, architecture, legal framework, map, description of the monasteries and visitor information.
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Mount Athos "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Mount Athos
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Mount Athos "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Mount Athos
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Mount Athos Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Mount Athos
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Mount Athos "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Mount Athos
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Mount Athos Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Mount Athos
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Mount Athos The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Mount Athos
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Mount Athos The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Mount Athos
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Mount Athos "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Mount Athos
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Mount Athos 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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Mount Athos
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mount Athos "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Mount Athos
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Mount Athos "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Mount Athos
