Roman Villa of Piazza Armerina - Detailed description of a luxurius Roman villa and the rich collection of late Roman mosaics (3500 m2) found there.
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Piazza Armerina Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Piazza Armerina
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Piazza Armerina "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Piazza Armerina
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Piazza Armerina Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Piazza Armerina
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Piazza Armerina Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Piazza Armerina
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Piazza Armerina If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Piazza Armerina
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Piazza Armerina "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Piazza Armerina
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) 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 If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Piazza Armerina To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Piazza Armerina
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Piazza Armerina Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Piazza Armerina
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Piazza Armerina What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Piazza Armerina
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Piazza Armerina "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Piazza Armerina
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Piazza Armerina Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese 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 think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Piazza Armerina
