Asinara Diving Center - Diving center and school on the Gulf of Asinara. Details of dives, courses, staff, prices, how to get there, accommodation, cuisine.
Stintino La Pelosa - Offers a house for rent. Description of Stintino, flora and fauna, local art.
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Stintino Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Stintino
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Stintino "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Stintino
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Stintino The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Stintino
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Stintino Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Stintino
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Stintino "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Stintino
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Stintino Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Stintino
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Stintino "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Stintino
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Stintino Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Stintino
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. 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 My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Stintino 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 Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Stintino
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Stintino "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Stintino
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Stintino "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Stintino
