Samnites - History of Samnites, the people, their own lands, towns, government, the Osco language, the religion, the Tablet of Agnone, the Special Legions, the Samnites Wars.
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Society and Culture
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone 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 Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Society and Culture
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Society and Culture Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Society and Culture
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Society and Culture The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "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) Society and Culture
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Society and Culture I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Society and Culture We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Society and Culture
"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 "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Society and Culture Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Society and Culture
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Society and Culture I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Society and Culture
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Society and Culture
