Casa Ombuto - A villa with 3 multi-person apartments for rent. Photo-gallery, descriptions and guest book.
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Poppi He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Poppi
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Poppi I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Poppi
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Poppi 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 Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Poppi
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Poppi Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Poppi
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Poppi Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Poppi
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Poppi 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 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Poppi
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Poppi Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Poppi
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter 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 in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Poppi "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Poppi
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan 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 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Poppi "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Poppi
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Poppi "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Poppi
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Poppi You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Poppi
