Tufara - Description and history of the village of Tufara in the Province of Campobasso. Photographs of Tufara and its castle, and photographs of frescos in the castle at Gambatesa.
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Tufara "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Tufara
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Tufara "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Tufara
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Tufara Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Tufara
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Tufara There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Tufara
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) 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 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Tufara Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tufara
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Tufara There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Tufara
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Tufara Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Tufara
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Tufara I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Tufara
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Tufara Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Tufara
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Tufara All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Tufara
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Tufara Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Tufara
