Hellenes-Diaspora Heritage Source - Comprehensive Greek genealogy and Greek born adoptee reference support on the internet. Includes mailing list, chat, and photos.
Greek Genealogy - Greek genealogy resources on the internet.
GreekFamilies.Com - Source and index for Greek genealogy resources on the Internet.
Greek Born Adoptees - Unknowingly to their parents, many Greek infants had been given for adoption in the post-world war II period. The goal of this site is to act as a hub for Greeks affected by such loss of their birth record.
GreeceGenWeb - Greek genealogy site including resources for surnames, queries, and links.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Genealogy There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Genealogy
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Genealogy "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Genealogy
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy 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 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Genealogy "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Genealogy
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Genealogy Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Genealogy
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Genealogy Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley 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 Genealogy
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Genealogy May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Genealogy
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Genealogy Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Anyway, 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,
ign "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Genealogy
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Genealogy "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Genealogy
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Genealogy This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died 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 Genealogy
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Genealogy There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Genealogy
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Genealogy Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Genealogy
