Val di Noto - The cities of the Noto Valley, Unesco World Heritage Site
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Val di Noto Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Val di Noto
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Val di Noto Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Val di Noto
>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 It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "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 I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Val di Noto May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Val di Noto
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Val di Noto The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Val di Noto
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Val di Noto Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Val di Noto
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed 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 "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Val di Noto The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Val di Noto
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Val di Noto Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Val di Noto
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) 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 Val di Noto "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Val di Noto
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) 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 Val di Noto The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Val di Noto
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Val di Noto "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Val di Noto
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Val di Noto Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Val di Noto
