Agrigento Web Site - Situated on the island of Sicily it is universally known for the spectacular Valley of Temples, the sacred area of ancient Akragas, one of the most important colonies of the Greek Empire.
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Agrigento A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Agrigento
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Agrigento 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 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Agrigento
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Agrigento Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Agrigento
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Agrigento The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Agrigento
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Agrigento No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Agrigento
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb 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 "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) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Agrigento 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 Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Agrigento
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Agrigento Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Agrigento
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "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) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Agrigento Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Agrigento
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Agrigento Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. 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
coachin Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Agrigento
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Agrigento Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Agrigento
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Agrigento Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Agrigento
