Messina Sicily - A complete overview on the province of Messina and its cities
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Messina Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard May you never leave your marriage alive. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Messina
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Messina "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Messina
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Messina Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Messina
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca 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 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "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 I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Messina "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Messina
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "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 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 Messina Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Messina
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Messina Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Messina
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Messina The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Messina
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 "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Messina "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Messina
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Messina "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha 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 Messina
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Messina Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Messina
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) 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 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Messina What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Messina
