Butteri d'Alta Maremma: Equestrian Show - Photographs and schedule of shows demonstrating the Carosello, the ancient Game of the Rose, the Staffette, and various exercises of ability and training.
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-- Dean Acheson Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Maremma What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Maremma
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Maremma Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maremma
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Maremma Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Maremma
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Maremma "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Maremma
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maremma There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Maremma
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Maremma Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Maremma
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Maremma What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Maremma
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Maremma "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maremma
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. 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 Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Maremma Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Maremma
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Maremma There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Maremma
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Maremma "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Maremma
