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All Cretans are liars.
--> Epimenides the Cretan

Incidentally, the Epimenides paradox should not be confused with the Nixonides paradox, first uttered by Nixonides the Cretin: "This statement is inoperative."
--> Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas. Penguin Books 1986, p. 33

The whole island :Great Britain should be longer, but the paper isn't large enough.
--> Matthew Paris (cartographer; 13th century)
From a Greek periodical (my English translation)

                            C H A N I A

Hanya'yi Konya'yi ogrenmek.
--> Turkish proverb. In:
Omer Asim Deyimler: Atasozleri ve Deyimler, Ankara Universitesi Basimevi 1965, p. 220, # 3811

From: Murat Eskiyerli <m.eskiyerli@ic.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 95 11:56:31 0000
To: xpolakis@compulink.gr

1) Yes, I think it is really Hanya in Crete.
2) It means to understand a matter, usually in unpleasant situation.
For example, somebody gives another a good thrashing: "Ona Hanya'yi Konya'yi ogretti."

(...)

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish
From: an176598@anon.penet.fi (Namik Kemal)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 10:23:31 UTC
Subject: Re: A Turkish proverb about HANYA.

(..)
>1.- "Hanya" is the city Chania of my island Crete?

     Yes, I suppose so.

>2.- What is its meaning?

     Translated literally as "to learn Hanya and Konya", it means
     to learn the important differences (e.g., between things
     or places that are widely known).

     Konya is a city in central Turkey.  "Hanya" and "Konya" 
     rhyme with each other, and they (supposedly) represent
     very far apart, unrelated places.
(...)

                                     S F A K I A

[The three  B's of Sfakia]:
FOSCARINI observes, in recounting his visit to Sfakia, where he remained six days, fol. 106. "Il sito et asprezza di quelli luoghi sono veramente accommodati et proprii alla ferocita di quella gente, ch' e belissima, bellicosa, et brava."
--> Robert Pashley, Travels in Crete. Volume II. Cambridge - London MDCCCXXXVII =1837, p. 289

                                              A N O P O L I S

 

                        Antreas P. Hatzipolakis

Once someone asked a group of Athens University mathematics students:
- Are you all mathematics students ?
- No! I am Cretan ! I replied.
--> A. P. H

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