Hotel Lo Scoiattolo - Located in the heart of Palumbo Village, near Cotronei. Description and photographs.
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Lodging "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe 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 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Lodging
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Lodging I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Lodging
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Lodging All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Lodging
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe 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 Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Lodging "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Lodging
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Lodging Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Lodging
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Lodging Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Lodging
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Lodging During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Lodging
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Lodging
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 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Lodging Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "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 Lodging
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Lodging
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Lodging Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Lodging
