Fabbricato Civile e Cantina - Private sale of a country house and its outbuildings in the hamlet of Perosio, in the council district of Cerrina in Piedmont. Plan, photographs, suggestions for conversion.
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Cerrina Monferrato Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Cerrina Monferrato
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Cerrina Monferrato "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Cerrina Monferrato
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Cerrina Monferrato The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Cerrina Monferrato
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Cerrina Monferrato There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Cerrina Monferrato
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cerrina Monferrato Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Cerrina Monferrato
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Cerrina Monferrato "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man 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 Cerrina Monferrato
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Cerrina Monferrato Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Cerrina Monferrato
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Cerrina Monferrato Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Cerrina Monferrato
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Cerrina Monferrato blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Cerrina Monferrato
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Cerrina Monferrato My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Cerrina Monferrato
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Cerrina Monferrato "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Cerrina Monferrato
