Fidia Pottery - Hand-painted ceramics and tableware from Deruta, a little town in the centre of Italy.
Authentic Gondolas - Detailed information about Gondolas, their history, and Venice's international center for traditional wooden boatbuilding, called Lo Squero.
Mauro De Biasio - Beaten iron and copper ornamental articles; the artist also creates massive forged sculptures.
Artischocken - Learn how to create small objects made up of polystirol and covered with small pieces of fabric: pictures will help you understand the technique.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Crafts What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Crafts
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) 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 The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Crafts Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Crafts
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Crafts "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Crafts
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) 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 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Crafts 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 I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Crafts
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Crafts To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Crafts
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Crafts In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Crafts
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates 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 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III 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 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Crafts Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Crafts
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Crafts They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Crafts
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Crafts "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) 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 Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Crafts
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Crafts You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain 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 Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Crafts
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Crafts Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Crafts
