Instituut Pacioli - Scholarly research about bookkeeping and merchant skills in Italy in the 14th and 15th century.
Normanni nel Sud - A detailed history of the Normans in the South of Italy, in Italian, with an English abstract. It offers some little known information on the Medieval history of Italy and the role of the Normans in it.
H-Italy - Scholarly discussion of Italian culture and history, with bibliographical, research and teaching resources.
My Return to Pantanella Italy - Narrative and photo comparisons by a US Airforce photographer of Italy in WWII and as it is today.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, History "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman History
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "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) History "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) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde History
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves History Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. History
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain History "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin History
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers History If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. 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 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) History
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland History "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher History
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur History "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain History
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) History I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde History
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "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) "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) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov History I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester History
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) 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 When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) History My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) History
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery History Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon History
