Hotel Gilly - Four star hotel and restaurant. Photographs, brief bilingual (Italian and English) description and map.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Torre Pellice When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Torre Pellice
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel 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 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Torre Pellice The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Torre Pellice
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Torre Pellice An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "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) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Torre Pellice
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler 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 A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Torre Pellice "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Torre Pellice
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson 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 If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Torre Pellice As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Torre Pellice
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Torre Pellice My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Torre Pellice
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Torre Pellice Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Torre Pellice
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Torre Pellice It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Torre Pellice
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "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) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Torre Pellice blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo 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 Torre Pellice
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 "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Torre Pellice Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Torre Pellice
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Torre Pellice "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Torre Pellice
