Calatafimi Segesta Municipality - Includes information on the city, events, history and the charming Segesta theatrical season.
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Calatafimi "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Calatafimi
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Calatafimi Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Calatafimi
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Calatafimi The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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 Calatafimi
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Calatafimi The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Calatafimi
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Calatafimi The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "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 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Calatafimi "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Calatafimi We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
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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 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Calatafimi A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Calatafimi
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Calatafimi 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" For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Calatafimi
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Calatafimi "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Calatafimi
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Calatafimi Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 Calatafimi
