The Cave Dwelling - Photos of ancient dwelling with typical furnishings.
Palace Hotel - Four star hotel located in the city centre. Overview, images and contact details.
Cultural Exchange - Schedule, news, and reports of the cultural exchange between Liceo Scientifico Matera and Suomela School Lavia in october 2001.
Duecci - Producers of adaptable modular cleaning systems. Includes profile, services, products and contact information.
Sassi of Matera - Offers group and individual packages with guided tours. Includes overview, trips and contact details.
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will 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 Matera "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
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We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Matera "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Matera
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex 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 Matera We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken My other wife is beautiful. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Matera
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Matera Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Matera
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Matera A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Matera
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Matera "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Matera
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Matera "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Matera
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Matera A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "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, ignorance, g Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Matera
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Matera I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Matera
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Matera "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Matera
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Matera My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Matera
