Cuccaro and Columbus - Columbus' family and the discovery of Venezuela. An introdution to the International Columbus Congress.
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Casale Monferrato It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Casale Monferrato
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Casale Monferrato My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. 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 He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Casale Monferrato
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Casale Monferrato The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Casale Monferrato
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Casale Monferrato In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Casale Monferrato
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Casale Monferrato Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Casale Monferrato
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Casale Monferrato blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Casale Monferrato
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Casale Monferrato "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Casale Monferrato
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." 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 The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Casale Monferrato There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Casale Monferrato
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Casale Monferrato For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Casale Monferrato
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Casale Monferrato People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Casale Monferrato
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "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) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Casale Monferrato If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Casale Monferrato
