Shrine of St. Michael - History and tour via sensitive cutaway drawing of the shrine in the Gargano peninsula. The shrine in a natural cavern lies at the heart of a complex of medieval buildings.
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Monte Sant'Angelo Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Monte Sant'Angelo
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Monte Sant'Angelo "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) 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 "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Monte Sant'Angelo
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Monte Sant'Angelo There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Monte Sant'Angelo
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Monte Sant'Angelo The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Monte Sant'Angelo
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Monte Sant'Angelo We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Monte Sant'Angelo
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 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Monte Sant'Angelo A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Monte Sant'Angelo
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Monte Sant'Angelo blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Monte Sant'Angelo
Man and wife make one fool. "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Monte Sant'Angelo Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Monte Sant'Angelo
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Monte Sant'Angelo Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Monte Sant'Angelo
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Monte Sant'Angelo Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Monte Sant'Angelo
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Monte Sant'Angelo Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Monte Sant'Angelo
