Adrano - Adrano, ancient city in Sicily, on Etna and close to Catania.
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "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) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Adrano There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Adrano
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Adrano If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Adrano
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Adrano Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Adrano
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Adrano "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from 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 Adrano
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Adrano If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Adrano
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Adrano The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Adrano
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Adrano "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Adrano
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Adrano "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk 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, The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Adrano
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel 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 Adrano Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Adrano
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Adrano "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Adrano
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Adrano Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Adrano
