The British Council - Learn English in Italy with the British Government's Official Body for Cultural, Scientific and Educational Exchange (Also Gives Guidance on Courses abroad)
Italian Language Academy - AIL - Italian language academy AIL, organizes italian language exams on three ability levels.
Language Teachers - Offer specifics courses for teachers of Italian, Spanish, German and French, including teachers pedagogical resources, and information to prepare a language study abroad program with the students.
Nik-las - Offer language courses, and cultural courses for foreign students and professionals in Siena, Florence and Rome, Italy.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Language Schools "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Language Schools
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Language Schools "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Language Schools
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Language Schools "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Language Schools
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Language Schools Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Language Schools
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Language Schools You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Language Schools
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Language Schools A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Language Schools
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Language Schools blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Language Schools
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Language Schools One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Language Schools
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Language Schools "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Language Schools
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield 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 I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Language Schools All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Language Schools
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Language Schools "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Language Schools
