Category: Lausanne to Rome

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

A hollow like a great amphitheatre, full of terraced steps and misty olives

E M Forster, A Room with a View

We are born to be sociable and to sit together with others in the shade of the acacia tree and talk about things that happened the day before.

Mma Ramotswe, Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed, but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Darwin

With a small town mentality, you makes a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or go your own way and just not care

Bjork

Festina Lente

Motto of Augustus

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble

Augustus Caesar

Heat and humidity is my bread and butter

Morgan Freeman

Our path is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day

Thomas Jefferson