Isola del Giglio - Information site for the island with local photographs, accommodation and restaurant listings, maps and ferry details.
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We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) 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 A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Giglio 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 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed 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 Giglio
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Giglio Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Giglio
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Giglio Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Giglio
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Giglio An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Giglio
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Giglio Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Giglio
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Giglio Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Giglio
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Giglio Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Giglio
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Giglio I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Giglio
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Giglio To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Giglio
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giglio If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "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) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Giglio
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Giglio "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Giglio
