Siracusa: users instructions - Unofficial site, just to give some advice to the future visitors of Siracusa, Sicily, Italy
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Syracuse Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Syracuse
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Syracuse 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 "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Syracuse
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Syracuse "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 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Syracuse
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Syracuse Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Syracuse
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "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) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Syracuse Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Syracuse
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Syracuse Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Syracuse
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "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) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Syracuse I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Syracuse
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "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 Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Syracuse "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Syracuse
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Syracuse To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Syracuse
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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
of "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Syracuse "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Syracuse
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Syracuse Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Syracuse
