Via Buttigliera - An old peasants' house, fully renovated. Includes photos, information about accommodation, location, and prices.
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Castelnuovo Don Bosco "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Castelnuovo Don Bosco
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Castelnuovo Don Bosco The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. 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 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Castelnuovo Don Bosco
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Castelnuovo Don Bosco Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Castelnuovo Don Bosco
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Castelnuovo Don Bosco You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Castelnuovo Don Bosco
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Castelnuovo Don Bosco The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Castelnuovo Don Bosco
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Castelnuovo Don Bosco I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Castelnuovo Don Bosco
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Castelnuovo Don Bosco 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 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Castelnuovo Don Bosco
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Castelnuovo Don Bosco True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Castelnuovo Don Bosco
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Castelnuovo Don Bosco It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Castelnuovo Don Bosco
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Castelnuovo Don Bosco "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Castelnuovo Don Bosco
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Castelnuovo Don Bosco "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) 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 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Castelnuovo Don Bosco
