Colli Favorita - Produces typical DOC wines such as Roero Arneis, Langhe Favorita, Piemonte Chardonnay and Dolcetto d'Alba.
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Pocapaglia Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Pocapaglia
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous 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 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Pocapaglia I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Pocapaglia
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Pocapaglia The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Pocapaglia
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 Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Pocapaglia When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pocapaglia
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Pocapaglia blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pocapaglia
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Pocapaglia A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Pocapaglia
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Pocapaglia If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Pocapaglia
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Pocapaglia We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Pocapaglia
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides 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 Pocapaglia "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual 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 Pocapaglia
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Pocapaglia May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Pocapaglia
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Pocapaglia Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. 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 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Pocapaglia
