General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean - FAO's department to promote development, conservation, rational management and best utilization of living marine resources, as well as sustainable development of aquaculture in the region.
The Mediterranean Shark Site - The online information resource for Mediterranean sharks, nearly fifty species. Natural history, news, conservation.
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "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) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Wildlife Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "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 Wildlife
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James 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 He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Wildlife Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Wildlife
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason 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.
-- Crow Wildlife He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Wildlife
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "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) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wildlife There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Wildlife
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Wildlife "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Wildlife
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Wildlife "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Wildlife
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Wildlife In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Wildlife
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Wildlife Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Wildlife
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Wildlife Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. 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 Wildlife
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Wildlife I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Wildlife
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Wildlife We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Wildlife
