Terreno - A Swedish owned and run vineyard. Details of the property, wines and oils produced, how to visit the estate, and information on staying as guests.
San Polo in Chianti - Description, map and pictures of the village of San Polo in Chianti with information on some vacation rentals.
Castello Vicchiomaggio - Chianti Classico wine estate. Offers holiday accommodation, wine and food catering, wedding receptions, banquets and restaurant with typical Tuscan cooking.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Greve in Chianti Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Greve in Chianti
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Greve in Chianti "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Greve in Chianti
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin 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 There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Greve in Chianti "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Greve in Chianti
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Greve in Chianti Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Greve in Chianti
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Greve in Chianti In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Greve in Chianti
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Greve in Chianti Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Greve in Chianti
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Greve in Chianti Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "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 Greve in Chianti
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Greve in Chianti "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Greve in Chianti
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Greve in Chianti Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Greve in Chianti
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Greve in Chianti "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Greve in Chianti
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes 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 A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Greve in Chianti "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Greve in Chianti
