Holidays in Umbria - Largely in Italian, there are accommodation links for assorted Umbrian cities and towns.
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne 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 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Lodging You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Lodging "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Lodging
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Lodging Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Lodging
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Lodging "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Lodging "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Lodging
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Lodging "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Lodging
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous 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 Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Lodging I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Lodging
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lodging In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Lodging
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Lodging A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Lodging
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Lodging "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "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 The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Lodging "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Lodging
