Enna Sicily - A complete overview on the province of Enna and its cities
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "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) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Enna "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Enna
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Enna Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Enna
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Enna "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Enna
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Enna If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Enna
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Enna Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Enna
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Enna My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Enna
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Enna Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Enna
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Enna First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Enna
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Enna Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Enna
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Enna Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Enna
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Enna The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Enna
