Old Camellias of the Lucchesia - Homepage for an annual Camellia show held in some old villas and gardens of the area. Details of dates and exhibitions.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
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-- Bill Moyers Travel and Tourism The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
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-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Hell is other people.
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-- Booker T. Washington Travel and Tourism
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
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-- Sigmund Freud I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
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Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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- Emile Zola Travel and Tourism
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Travel and Tourism
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- Benjamin Franklin The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "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) Travel and Tourism Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism 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 Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Travel and Tourism
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Travel and Tourism Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "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 We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Travel and Tourism "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Travel and Tourism
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Travel and Tourism "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Travel and Tourism
