Locanda Villa Toscana - Bed and Breakfast establishment; photo-gallery, prices, description, map and local detail.
Villaggio del Forte - A camping and bungalow 'village', with description, images, pricing and map.
Le Capanne - Photographs, description, virtual tour and pricing for this coastal campsite.
Agriturismo La Sainella - Apartments on southern Tuscan coast. Brief details and some photographs.
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-- Anonymous For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Bibbona "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Bibbona Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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-- Anonymous "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Bibbona
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Bibbona "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Bibbona
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Bibbona "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "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 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Bibbona
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Bibbona "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Bibbona
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. 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 Bibbona "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Bibbona
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "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) 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 Bibbona By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Bibbona
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Bibbona Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Bibbona
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Bibbona The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Bibbona Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Bibbona
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Bibbona Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Bibbona
