EcoBajardo Project - Describes the mountain village of Bajardo in the province of Imperia, Liguria, and efforts to revitalize it using principles of ecological sustainability.
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Localities In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Localities
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Localities All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Localities
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Localities The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Localities
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Localities "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Localities
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Localities Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Localities
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Localities I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Localities
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Localities "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Localities
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Localities "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Localities
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show 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 Localities "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Localities
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Localities Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Localities
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Localities I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Localities
