My Personal Page

On this page I'm going to include more personal items such as pictures, quotes that I like, and things of that type.

• If your opponent is drowning throw the son of a bitch an anvil.---James Carville
• Arguments are to be avoided--- they are always vulgar and often convincing.---Oscar Wilde
• The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.--- G.K. Chesterton
• Prima legge del dibattito: non discutere mai con un idiota. La gente potrebbe non notare la differenza.---Arthur Bloch
• Education is what remains if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.---Albert Einstein
• His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.---John Stuart Mill
• Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ---F.P. Jones
• Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ---Samuel Beckett
• Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.---George Santayana
• "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." ---Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
• If the idea is good it will survive defeat. It may even survive victory.---Stephen Vincent Benet.
• It's interesting how a really good problem can sometimes be much better than a really good answer.---Hyam Rubinstein
• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.---Saul Bellow
• Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.---E. B. White
• If you think you are too small to make the difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. ---Dalai Lama
• By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task overwhelm me.---Ashleigh Brilliant - UC Berkeley `street' philosopher
• They couldn't pour piss out of a boot if you wrote the instructions on the sole.---Garrison Keillor (talking about what's happened to farmers' children).
• You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.--- Max Beerbohm
• He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.---Abraham Lincoln
• Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.---Tallulah Bankhead
• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.---George Santayana
• Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box.---Twyla Tharp
• Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.--- Kin Hubbard
• If you can keep your head about you, when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.---Jean Kerr
• Out beyond ideas of doing wrong and doing right, there is a field. I'll meet you there.---Rumi

Queen Esther.	Paolo Salmon.
Nicoletta and Paolo Valabrega	Paolo Valabrega with me
Gabe, Betty and myself at Forum	Betty and Gabe at "Tartarughe"
Gabe at the Colosseum	Gabe at the Pincio
Betty and Gabe at Pompeii	Gabe at "Miriam" fountain
Betty and David at same fountain	All of us at Mascherone fountain

• Queen Esther
• Paolo Salmon
• PaoloV and me
• Nicoletta and PaoloV
• All of us in the forum
• Betty and Gabe at Tartarughe Fountain
• Gabe at the Colosseum
• Gabe at the Pincio
• Betty and Gabe at Pompeii
• Gabe at "Miriam" fountain
• Betty and David at same fountain
• All of us at Mascherone fountain

Back to my home page.

To Venice pictures.

To Camogli pictures.

To my "poetry" page.

And here's a link to some of my more "personal" publications.