Alto Adige: South Tyrol - Mainly a directory of web-sites of hotels and other lodgings, with a map. Illustrated introduction to the area in English, German and Italian and a few business links.
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Lodging Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Lodging
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Lodging Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Lodging
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Lodging "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) 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 I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Lodging
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Lodging "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Lodging
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Lodging "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Lodging
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman 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 I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Lodging The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Lodging
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Lodging No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Lodging
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Lodging 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 "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Lodging
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Lodging If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Lodging
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Lodging Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "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, Alice in Wonderland Lodging
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Lodging I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Lodging
