Umbria Apartments - [Castel dell'Aquila] Apartments located to the south of Todi: photographs, descriptions and maps.
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Montecastrilli Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Montecastrilli
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Montecastrilli "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Montecastrilli
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Montecastrilli When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Montecastrilli
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying 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 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Montecastrilli All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Montecastrilli
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Montecastrilli 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
sea Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Montecastrilli
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Montecastrilli "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 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Montecastrilli
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Montecastrilli "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Montecastrilli
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Montecastrilli "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Montecastrilli
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas 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 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Montecastrilli "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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, Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Montecastrilli
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Montecastrilli Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Montecastrilli
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Montecastrilli "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Montecastrilli
