Incrociata - Incrociata Farmhouse, an ideal place for your holidays in the heart of Tuscan landscape
La Fornace - Four kilometres outside the town, in the valley of the river Ambra. Apartments for rent - brief description and some black and white photographs.
Castellino Bucine - Apartment photographs and description, map, local information and prices.
Podere Le Muricce - Agritourism establishment. Photographs, description, maps, local information and details of special offers.
Tenuta di Lupinari - Ancient village with 750 acres of woods and vineyards. Pictures, map and booking on line.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Bucine Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Bucine
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Bucine Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Bucine
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Bucine Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Bucine
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Bucine The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Bucine
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Bucine "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Bucine
"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) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Bucine Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bucine
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Bucine He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Bucine
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Bucine When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Bucine
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Bucine Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Bucine
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Bucine There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Bucine
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Bucine "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Bucine
