Abruzzo Tourism - The official web site describes the region and its history, art and culture. It covers the parks and winter and summer attractions. Listings of hotels and camp sites.
Heart of Italy Tours - Offers tours in Central Italy: meanly Abruzzo, but also Latium, Umbria and Marches, with their culinary traditions.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Travel and Tourism
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 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Travel and Tourism
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Travel and Tourism
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "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) Travel and Tourism The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Travel and Tourism
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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-- Wedding Toast We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Travel and Tourism "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Travel and Tourism
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Travel and Tourism
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous 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 It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Travel and Tourism
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Travel and Tourism
May you never leave your marriage alive. When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Travel and Tourism To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Travel and Tourism
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Travel and Tourism America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Travel and Tourism
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Travel and Tourism
