Hotel Monterivoso - An old water-mill totally restored immersed in the uncontaminated nature of the fluvial park of the Nera river.
Bella Umbria: Ferentillo - Listing of hotels, country houses, farm houses and restaurants. Tourism guides for holidays and information about town events.
Verde Umbria - Descriptions of property and services, rates, contact and reserve informations, map to reach it and local details.
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Ferentillo When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Ferentillo
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Ferentillo My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Ferentillo
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Ferentillo "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Ferentillo Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Ferentillo
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Ferentillo I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
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"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor 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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Ferentillo "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
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-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Ferentillo
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Ferentillo >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 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 Ferentillo
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Ferentillo Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "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) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Ferentillo
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 Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Ferentillo I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Ferentillo
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
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marriage
-- Martin Luther The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Ferentillo
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Ferentillo Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Ferentillo
