Why does the New Italian navy have glass bottom boats? To see the Old Italian Navy!
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He who is not impatient is not in love.
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The best armor is to keep out of range.
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Bed is the poor man's opera.
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The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventhday Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor whosees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.
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Better no law than laws not enforced.
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During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland.
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She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
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Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
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He who begins many things finishes but few.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.
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A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth -- science -- which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.
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He who knows nothing doubts nothing.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.
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Proverbs bear age, and he who would do well may view himself in them as in a looking glass
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Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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By learning to obey, you will know how to command.
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Speak of the Devil and he appears.
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He that jokes confesses.
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By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible.
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
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An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Sweedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
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The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved.
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When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.
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At a round table there is no dispute about place.
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It's a straightforward matter of equality: it's outrageously unfair that heterosexuals shoulder alone the burden of keeping divorce lawyers in Italian sports cars
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