Castles of Friuli Venezia Giulia - The Consortium for the Protection of Historical Castles of Friuli-Venezia Giulia promotes restoration and study. It also arranges visits to selected castles and mansions. Photographs and details.
Ben and Dave's Life in Italy - Provides an informative page on the region. It also expands on travel opportunities and the quest to learn the wonderful language of Italian.
Friuli Aquileia - Presentation of region, wines and producers.
Buiani S.n.c. - Manufactures and exports folding chairs. Company profile, product catalog, contact form.
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Friuli-Venezia Giulia Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. 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 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Friuli-Venezia Giulia
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Friuli-Venezia Giulia Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Friuli-Venezia Giulia
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Friuli-Venezia Giulia People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Friuli-Venezia Giulia
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Friuli-Venezia Giulia Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Friuli-Venezia Giulia "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Friuli-Venezia Giulia
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Friuli-Venezia Giulia However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Friuli-Venezia Giulia
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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 Friuli-Venezia Giulia I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre 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 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Friuli-Venezia Giulia Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Friuli-Venezia Giulia "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Friuli-Venezia Giulia The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Friuli-Venezia Giulia I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Friuli-Venezia Giulia
