Bella Umbria: San Gemini - Listing of hotels, country houses, farm houses and restaurants. Tourism guides for holidays and information about town events.
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Valleantica - Agriturism with swimming-pool and restaurant. It offers 8 independent apartments with kitchen.
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken San Gemini "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor San Gemini
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler San Gemini The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) San Gemini
"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) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor San Gemini 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George San Gemini
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw San Gemini Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde San Gemini
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. San Gemini The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau San Gemini
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham San Gemini The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) San Gemini
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau San Gemini Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo San Gemini
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere San Gemini A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) San Gemini It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie San Gemini
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) San Gemini No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' San Gemini
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe 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 San Gemini If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) San Gemini
