Forza Italia - Party founded by Silvio Berlusconi. Interviews and articles, statement of beliefs, history, and links to the press and other center-right parties provided.
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 A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Parties A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Parties
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Parties A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Parties
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Parties "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Parties
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Parties 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 "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Parties
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Parties Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Parties
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Parties I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Parties
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Parties I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Parties
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Parties Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain 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 Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Parties
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Parties "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Parties
Marriage is a rest period between romances. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Parties Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Parties
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 don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Parties "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Parties
