Acicastello - Acicastello, fomous city on "Riviera dei ciclopi" and close to Catania.
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Acicastello If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "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." Acicastello
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Acicastello She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Acicastello
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Acicastello "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Acicastello
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Acicastello Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Acicastello
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Acicastello Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Acicastello
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Acicastello Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Acicastello
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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 "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Acicastello Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Acicastello
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Acicastello "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Acicastello
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Acicastello Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "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) Acicastello
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Acicastello "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Acicastello
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Acicastello Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Acicastello
