Acchiappasogni - Massa, northern Tuscany. Accommodation is also offered in tepees during summer months. Description and a few photographs.
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The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Massa The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Massa
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Massa Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Massa
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Massa Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Massa
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Massa I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Massa
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Massa "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) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Massa
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Massa Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Massa
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Massa >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Massa
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Massa Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Massa
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Massa "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Massa
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) 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 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Massa Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Massa
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Massa "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) 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 Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Massa
