Locanda del Capitano - Details and photographs of the accommodation and restaurant, plus local events and information.
Casa Valdeste - It offers holiday rentals in the city center of Montone.
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Montone "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Montone
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) 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 Montone A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Montone
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Montone It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Montone
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "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) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Montone The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Montone
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Montone Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Montone
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Montone This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Montone
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Montone A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Montone
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Montone Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Montone
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Montone Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Montone
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Montone Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Montone
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Montone Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Montone
