"You may have the universe if I may have Italy"

...Giuseppe Verdi...

"The trouble with Italian food is that
five or six days later you're hungry again!"

...George Miller...

"A great dish gives me goosebumps. It's unforgettable!
It's not all about food - it's the experience, the memory!"

...Mario Percuoco...

"I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, which melts like kisses
from a female mouth, and sounds as if it should be writ on satin
with syllables which breathe of the sweet South"

...Lord Byron...

"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority,
from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see"

...Samuel Johnson...

"One is never too old to yearn"

...Italian Proverb...

"Italy, and the spring and first love all together
should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy"

...Bertrand Russell...