Ragusa Sicily - A complete overview on the province of Ragusa and its cities
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Ragusa "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Ragusa
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Ragusa Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Ragusa
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Ragusa 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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Ragusa
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Ragusa When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "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 "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Ragusa
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Ragusa "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Ragusa
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf 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, Ragusa Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Ragusa
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ragusa A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Ragusa
Man and wife make one fool. "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Ragusa "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Ragusa
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Ragusa We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Ragusa
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Ragusa 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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Ragusa
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Ragusa "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Ragusa
