La Selvella - Farm estate divided into apartments. Photographs and descriptions, maps, rates, and local information.
Podere Pietreta - Apartments in a restored farmhouse near Radicofani. Photographs, rates and local information.
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Radicofani Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Radicofani
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Radicofani You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Radicofani
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Radicofani There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Radicofani
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Radicofani "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Radicofani
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Radicofani No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac 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' ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Radicofani The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Radicofani
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Radicofani Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Radicofani
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot 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 Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Radicofani Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Radicofani
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Radicofani There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Radicofani
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Radicofani No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Radicofani
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Radicofani "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Radicofani
