Righetti Raffaele - Farm and plant nursery situated in Bottegone. Brief company details, map and a few photographs.
La Scolpitura - Manufacturer specialising in reproduction furniture and sacred images, plus wooden decorative items embellished with intarsio. Some company information and sample pieces.
Lucato Daniela - Producer of interior decoration accessories. Company and product details together with photographs.
City of Pistoia - English section of the official municipal administration website. Extensive information on the city and its history.
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Pistoia A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Pistoia
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Pistoia The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 Pistoia
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Pistoia What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Pistoia
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Pistoia He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Pistoia
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Pistoia Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Pistoia
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Pistoia It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Pistoia
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Pistoia Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Pistoia
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Pistoia I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Pistoia
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "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) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Pistoia Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Pistoia
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Pistoia To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Pistoia
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Pistoia "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Pistoia
