Trapani Sicily - A complete overview on the province of Trapani and its cities
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Trapani "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Trapani
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Trapani "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Trapani
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Trapani This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Trapani
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Trapani There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Trapani
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Trapani We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Trapani
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "... 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) Trapani "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "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, "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Trapani
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Trapani I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Trapani
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Trapani Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Trapani
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Trapani Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Trapani
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Trapani "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Trapani
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Trapani "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) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Trapani
