Carbonia 1938-1996 - Presents the town history, culture, and environment as well as lodging, handycrafts, archaeology, and speleology.
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Anyway, 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,
ign Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Carbonia Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Carbonia
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. 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 Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Carbonia For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy 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 Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Carbonia "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 Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Carbonia
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 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Carbonia 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap 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 Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Carbonia
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager 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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Carbonia The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Carbonia
"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) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Carbonia "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Carbonia
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Carbonia We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Carbonia
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 Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Carbonia A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Carbonia
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Carbonia "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Carbonia
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Carbonia "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Carbonia
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Carbonia Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Carbonia
