Duronia - History of Duronia, a panoramic small town in the hills. Includes photos, and a variety of information. In English and Italian.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Duronia "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Duronia
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Duronia "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Duronia
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Duronia The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Duronia
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Duronia Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Duronia
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Duronia Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Duronia
"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) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Duronia Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Duronia
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Duronia "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Duronia
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Duronia Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Duronia
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Duronia If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Duronia
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Duronia A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Duronia
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Duronia "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Duronia
