Rocco, Michele - Contains a lot of pictorial content that gives a true representation of life in some Molise villages.
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Colletorto I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Colletorto
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Colletorto "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Colletorto
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Colletorto I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin 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 Colletorto
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 Colletorto Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Colletorto
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Colletorto There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Colletorto
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Colletorto There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Colletorto
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Colletorto I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Colletorto
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Colletorto It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Colletorto
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Colletorto The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Colletorto
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Colletorto Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Colletorto
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Colletorto One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Colletorto
