Abruzzese Songs For Downloading - Traditional Abruzzese songs in MP3 format for downloading, free; performed by Costantino Conte.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Arts and Entertainment Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Arts and Entertainment
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Arts and Entertainment "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Arts and Entertainment
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Arts and Entertainment You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Arts and Entertainment
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Arts and Entertainment
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) 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 Arts and Entertainment Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Arts and Entertainment
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Arts and Entertainment "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Arts and Entertainment My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Arts and Entertainment "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "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) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Arts and Entertainment These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Arts and Entertainment
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts and Entertainment What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Arts and Entertainment
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Arts and Entertainment 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 "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
