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Orta Lake - All you need to know about the most romantic of Italian lakes.
Piemonte On Line - Covers tourism, culture, sport and leisure in Piedmont. Photographs, news, weather, museums, historic attractions, events, parks, sport, food and wine.
Piedmont a la Carte - Guide to local cuisine, with a selection of restaurants, from Piedmont Properties.
ChefMoz: Piedmont - Detailed restaurant listings with reviews submitted by the public, and links to outside reviews. Search by name, cuisine, rating or location.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Piedmont A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Piedmont "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch Piedmont "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly Piedmont A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers 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 "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther Piedmont Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson Piedmont With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Piedmont Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Piedmont Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Piedmont Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Piedmont The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Piedmont A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Piedmont "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Piedmont Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane Piedmont Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright Piedmont Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Piedmont One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Piedmont Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei Piedmont She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words >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 We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Piedmont The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 Piedmont The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Piedmont The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Piedmont
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