Gubbio.com - A local portal with some english content regarding museums, events and suggested excursions.
Bella Umbria: Gubbio - Listing of hotels, country houses, farm houses and restaurants. Tourism guides for holidays and information about town events.
Sbandieratori Gubbio - Presentation of the association and its history, the flags and the several typologies of exhibition. Calendar of events and photo gallery.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Gubbio "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "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) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Gubbio
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Gubbio "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Gubbio
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 For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Gubbio Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Gubbio
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Gubbio Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Gubbio
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 "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Gubbio "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) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Gubbio
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Gubbio "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Gubbio
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Gubbio "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Gubbio
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch 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 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Gubbio I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Gubbio
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live 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? I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Gubbio Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "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) Gubbio
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Gubbio When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Gubbio
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Gubbio The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Gubbio
