Lance Castle - Property in the village of Lanciole, with descriptions of accommodation, photographs, and some local information.
La Gualtiera - Agritourism establishment with photographs and descriptions of both the accommodation and the restaurant. Also maps, rates and some local links.
Bianchi Dino - Dried flowers for every use, supplies also florists' accessories.
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Pescia The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
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"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
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sea People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pescia "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Pescia
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Pescia Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
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Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Pescia There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
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-- Salvador Dali "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
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-- H. L. Mencken "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Pescia
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
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-- Samuel Johnson The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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perhaps inevitable.
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-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Pescia
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
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-- W. C. Fields Pescia
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
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-- Fran Lebowitz Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
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-- G. K. Chesterton Pescia This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pescia
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "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) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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-- Indira Gandhi Pescia Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Pescia
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Pescia Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Pescia
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Pescia When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Pescia
