Alpi Apuane - Guide covers Garfagnana, Lunigiana and Versilia areas of Apuan mountain range and has suggestions for hiking trails, places of interest, local parks with maps and useful information for visitors.
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian 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 Geographical Areas "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Geographical Areas
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Geographical Areas I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Geographical Areas
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Geographical Areas 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. Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Geographical Areas
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Geographical Areas 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 "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Geographical Areas
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Geographical Areas 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 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Geographical Areas
Marriage is a rest period between romances. He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Geographical Areas There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Geographical Areas
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Geographical Areas People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Geographical Areas
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Geographical Areas Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Geographical Areas
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Geographical Areas "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Geographical Areas
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Geographical Areas "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Geographical Areas
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Geographical Areas Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Geographical Areas
