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Cats of Rome - Here at Torre Cat Sanctuary (Italy), our feline friends (which now number approximately 250) have found respite from the chaos and traffic amongst the oldest temples in Rome (400-300 BC). Volunteers from different countries, who created the shelter, work here seven days a week.
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel 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 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Animal Welfare All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title "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) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Animal Welfare You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back 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 Animal Welfare If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover "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 The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Animal Welfare When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Animal Welfare I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Animal Welfare Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Animal Welfare "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Animal Welfare "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Animal Welfare Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Animal Welfare If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Animal Welfare If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous Animal Welfare blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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, May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Animal Welfare Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Animal Welfare The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Animal Welfare He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Animal Welfare Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Animal Welfare Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Animal Welfare A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Animal Welfare "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) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Animal Welfare Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at Animal Welfare "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 The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Animal Welfare
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