Val di Lima - A non-profit guide to this area in the north of the region, close to bagni di Lucca. Photographs, events, and local detail.
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Val di Lima "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Val di Lima
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Val di Lima Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Val di Lima
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Spinster: A bachelor's wife. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Val di Lima "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Val di Lima
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Val di Lima My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Val di Lima
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Val di Lima The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Val di Lima
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Val di Lima Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Val di Lima
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Val di Lima Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Val di Lima
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Val di Lima Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Val di Lima
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Val di Lima "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Val di Lima
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Val di Lima We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Val di Lima
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Val di Lima The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Val di Lima
