The International School of Art - An intensive program in drawing, painting and sculpture for worldwide artists in the tiny town of Montecastello di Vibio. Includes information about the school and programs of education.
Fattoria di Vibio - Country house in Monte Peglia park with pool, cooking classes, typical products tasting.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Monte Castello di Vibio CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Monte Castello di Vibio
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Monte Castello di Vibio "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Monte Castello di Vibio
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Monte Castello di Vibio Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Monte Castello di Vibio
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Monte Castello di Vibio "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "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) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Monte Castello di Vibio
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from 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 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Monte Castello di Vibio An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Monte Castello di Vibio
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Monte Castello di Vibio A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Monte Castello di Vibio
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Man and wife make one fool. Monte Castello di Vibio The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Monte Castello di Vibio
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Monte Castello di Vibio Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Monte Castello di Vibio
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
coachin "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Monte Castello di Vibio The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Monte Castello di Vibio
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Monte Castello di Vibio Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Monte Castello di Vibio
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Monte Castello di Vibio Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Monte Castello di Vibio
