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Sicilian.net - Portal site for business and tourism, with index and search facility. Also provides an introduction to the island, with maps and photographs.
Best of Sicily - History, culture, illustrated descriptions of attractions: castles, Greek temples, Roman cities, churches, stately homes and beaches, with map. Travel tips. Business links.
Sicilyweb - Contains some English content on the history and background of assorted towns and areas.
Sicily, from Indettaglio.it - Portal site, with information on places, hospitality, produce, local history and images.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician Sicily "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus Sicily "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken Sicily It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha Sicily Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Sicily "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager Sicily If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Sicily "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Sicily "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard 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 Sicily During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Sicily Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Sicily "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Sicily I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Sicily "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway Sicily The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Sicily As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Sicily Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson 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 Sicily "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian "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) Sicily It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Sicily 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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard Sicily blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Sicily Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Sicily
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