Ramona Hotel - Located in Bucovina, close to the Voronet monastery. Includes a general presentation, images with the accommodation, and contact information.
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Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Gura Humorului Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around 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 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 Gura Humorului
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Gura Humorului "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Gura Humorului
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Gura Humorului Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Gura Humorului
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Gura Humorului Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 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 act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Gura Humorului
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Gura Humorului Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Gura Humorului
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "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) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Gura Humorului 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 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Gura Humorului
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Gura Humorului We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Gura Humorului
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) 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 It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Gura Humorului In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Gura Humorului
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Gura Humorului Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Gura Humorului
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Gura Humorului For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Gura Humorului
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Gura Humorului It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Gura Humorului
