Icarian Sea - Illustrated e-magazine offering articles on the eastern Aegean islands.
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr News and Media The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) News and Media
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) News and Media "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko News and Media
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton News and Media "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock News and Media
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) News and Media He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) News and Media
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller 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 "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) News and Media
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon News and Media The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson News and Media Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) News and Media
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) News and Media Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun 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 Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth News and Media
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) 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 The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu News and Media You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa News and Media Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan News and Media
