Aegean Islands - Describes the Greek islands of the Aegean Sea, with maps and photos.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "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." North Aegean Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White North Aegean
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman North Aegean 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 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings North Aegean
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt North Aegean Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers North Aegean
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your North Aegean Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde North Aegean
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) North Aegean Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" North Aegean
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei North Aegean Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) North Aegean
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman North Aegean A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen North Aegean
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee North Aegean Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf North Aegean
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. North Aegean If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt North Aegean
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells North Aegean "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) North Aegean
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) North Aegean Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous North Aegean
