Grecafm Radio - Background information and programme of this radio station broadcasting in the area of Pirgos.
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Radio "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) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "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) Radio
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Radio Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Radio
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 When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Radio Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Radio
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Radio A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Radio
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Radio Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Radio
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Radio "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 Radio
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Radio "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Radio
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Radio In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Radio 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 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Radio
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Radio "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Radio
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 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Radio "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Radio
