Valdichiana.it - Guide to accommodation, shopping, trips and services in the Chiana Valley between Arezzo, Siena and Umbria. Lists of local farms and products, as well as wineries and restaurants.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "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 Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Valdichiana Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Valdichiana
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Valdichiana Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Valdichiana
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Valdichiana Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Valdichiana
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 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Valdichiana The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Valdichiana
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Valdichiana "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Valdichiana
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Valdichiana Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "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 I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Valdichiana
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Valdichiana "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Valdichiana
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Man and wife make one fool. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Valdichiana The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Valdichiana
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Valdichiana When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Valdichiana
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 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Valdichiana When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Valdichiana
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Valdichiana The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Valdichiana
