Mussolini in Pictures - Collection of Mussolini pictures, including a some shots of his execution taken by the webmaster's grandfather. Site also has a discussion forum.
20th Century Heroes and Villains - Mussolini and Abyssinia - Detailed examination of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's war against the African country of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). Educational resource assembled by the British National Archives' Learning Curve project.
Italians struggle with Mussolini legacy - Hundreds of Italian skinheads and rightwing sympathisers are attempting to rehabilitate the legacy of Benito Mussolini, after decades of silence on Italy's fascist leader. Crossing Continents visits the birthplace and final resting place of Il Duce. Kate Goldberg writes for BBC News Online.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Mussolini, Benito Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Mussolini, Benito
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Mussolini, Benito People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Mussolini, Benito
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Mussolini, Benito Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Mussolini, Benito
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Mussolini, Benito Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Mussolini, Benito
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Mussolini, Benito "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Mussolini, Benito
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Mussolini, Benito The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Mussolini, Benito
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Mussolini, Benito "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Mussolini, Benito
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "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) "... 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) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Mussolini, Benito "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Mussolini, Benito
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Mussolini, Benito "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Mussolini, Benito
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Mussolini, Benito The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Mussolini, Benito
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason 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 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Mussolini, Benito There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Mussolini, Benito
