Materdomini - Santuario San Gerardo - Religious tourism with appointments and news. Information about the Sanctuary and S. Gerald, the history, the main manifestations.
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Materdomini Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and 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
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May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Materdomini Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Materdomini
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Materdomini He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Materdomini
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Materdomini Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Materdomini
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Materdomini The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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. Materdomini
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 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Materdomini Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "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) Materdomini
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Materdomini Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Materdomini
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Materdomini "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Materdomini
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Materdomini The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Materdomini
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Materdomini "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Materdomini
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. 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 I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Materdomini When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Materdomini
