Bella Umbria: Ficulle - Listing of hotels, country houses, farm houses and restaurants. Tourism guides for holidays and information about town events.
Azienda Agricola Amadriade - Description of the botanical garden and the naturalistic culture courses organized.
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Ficulle I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ficulle
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Ficulle This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Ficulle
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Ficulle To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Ficulle
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago 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 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Ficulle All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Ficulle
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Ficulle Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Ficulle
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland What's new? Most of my wife. Ficulle If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ficulle
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Ficulle Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Ficulle
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Ficulle Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Ficulle
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Ficulle A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Ficulle
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Ficulle I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Ficulle
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Ficulle I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Ficulle
