Casa Tranquilla - High on a hill overlooking the upper Tiber river valley is the tiny village Corposano. Here lies this farm property.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler 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 gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle San Giustino "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 San Giustino
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? Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard San Giustino Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "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) San Giustino
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 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd San Giustino Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man San Giustino
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 Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g San Giustino We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis San Giustino
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 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry San Giustino Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe San Giustino
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn San Giustino Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder San Giustino
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. San Giustino "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. San Giustino
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler San Giustino The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe San Giustino
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) San Giustino Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 San Giustino
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi San Giustino A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all San Giustino
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill San Giustino Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates San Giustino
