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Architectural Prints - Antique prints showing monuments and views: among others, masterpieces by F. Piranesi.
Architecture of Italy - Italian buildings in the Great Buildings Online database: images, descriptions and sources.
Antique Prints of Architectural Monuments - The Philographikon Gallery sells 17th and 18th-century prints of Classical, Renaissance and Baroque Italian architecture. Images with general descriptions of each group.
Restauro - The annual International Fair of the Art of Restoration and Conservation of Cultural and Environmental Heritage. Site in Italian and English.
Light and Shadow in Northern Italia - The reactions of Japanese architect Shuichi Kitamura to the architecture of Venice, Vincenza and Verona.
Churches of Italy - Bill Thayer's tour: thumbnail images lead to pages or sites on mainly medieval churches in Rome, Milan, the Marche and Umbria.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "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." Architecture "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Architecture It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor 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. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Architecture "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Architecture Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Architecture Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Architecture Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Architecture This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Architecture "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Architecture I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architecture A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels Architecture Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Architecture Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Architecture "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Architecture Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Architecture There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Architecture Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architecture If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Architecture Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Architecture "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Architecture Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W 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 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous Architecture One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr If I were a girl, I'd despair. 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