Rocco, Michele - Contains a lot of pictorial content that gives a true representation of life in some Molise villages.
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "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 "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde San Giovanni in Galdo Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt San Giovanni in Galdo
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) San Giovanni in Galdo To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent San Giovanni in Galdo
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius San Giovanni in Galdo The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous San Giovanni in Galdo
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) San Giovanni in Galdo "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. San Giovanni in Galdo
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor San Giovanni in Galdo "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei San Giovanni in Galdo
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo 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 "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) San Giovanni in Galdo The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "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) 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 San Giovanni in Galdo
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot San Giovanni in Galdo Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous San Giovanni in Galdo
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. San Giovanni in Galdo A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills San Giovanni in Galdo
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard San Giovanni in Galdo The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. San Giovanni in Galdo
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board San Giovanni in Galdo He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) San Giovanni in Galdo
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel San Giovanni in Galdo Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) San Giovanni in Galdo
