Aegean Prehistory Web Resources - Andrea Vianello, University of Sheffield, provides papers and notes on archaeology, structured as questions and answers with related links.
Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean - Series of lessons and illustrations, tracing the Aegean from Palaeolithic and Neolithic times to Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece by Jeremy B. Rutter at Dartmouth College.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Society and Culture Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture 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 "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Society and Culture
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Society and Culture In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Society and Culture
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. 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 His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is a rest period between romances. Society and Culture If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Society and Culture 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 Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Society and Culture
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Society and Culture Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Society and Culture
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates 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 It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Society and Culture
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Society and Culture
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Society and Culture Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Society and Culture
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Society and Culture All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Society and Culture
