Castelfranco di Sopra - Official town council site for this small town between Florence and Arezzo. Local history, information and events plus virtual tour, images and maps.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Castelfranco di Sopra Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Castelfranco di Sopra
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Castelfranco di Sopra "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Castelfranco di Sopra
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Castelfranco di Sopra "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Castelfranco di Sopra
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "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 A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Castelfranco di Sopra "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Castelfranco di Sopra
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart 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 Castelfranco di Sopra It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Castelfranco di Sopra
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Castelfranco di Sopra Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Castelfranco di Sopra
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Castelfranco di Sopra Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Castelfranco di Sopra
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Castelfranco di Sopra "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Castelfranco di Sopra
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Castelfranco di Sopra Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Castelfranco di Sopra
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Castelfranco di Sopra Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Castelfranco di Sopra
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Castelfranco di Sopra Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Castelfranco di Sopra
