Hotel Delfin - Three star hotel situated near the sea. Brief description, photographs, price list, information and reservation request forms.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Montignoso If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Montignoso
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Montignoso A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Montignoso
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Montignoso "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Montignoso
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. 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 Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Montignoso The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "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) Montignoso
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Montignoso An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Montignoso
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Montignoso Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Montignoso
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Montignoso Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Montignoso
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha 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 "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) Montignoso Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Montignoso
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Montignoso A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter 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,
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"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Montignoso "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) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Montignoso
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Montignoso "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Montignoso
