Piedmont Properties - Specialising in villas and vineyards near Asti and Alba in Southern Piedmont. Targeted at the international market from a UK office.
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Business and Economy "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) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Business and Economy
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Business and Economy If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Business and Economy
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Business and Economy
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Business and Economy It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Business and Economy
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Business and Economy
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan 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 have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Business and Economy If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Business and Economy
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) 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 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Business and Economy "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Business and Economy
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper 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 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Business and Economy Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Business and Economy
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Business and Economy Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Business and Economy
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Business and Economy "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Business and Economy
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) 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 The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Business and Economy Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
