Hotel Za Maria - Hotel ZÃ Maria, recently renovated, is situated 3 km. from S.Stefano di Camastra (famous for its ceramics).
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Caronia Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Caronia
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Caronia Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Caronia
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Caronia "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Caronia
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 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 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Caronia 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 "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Caronia
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Caronia Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Caronia
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Caronia "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Caronia
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Caronia "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Caronia
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Caronia Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Caronia
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Caronia I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Caronia
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Caronia "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Caronia
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 Caronia Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Caronia
