De vita e Fici architects - Interior and furniture design, urban planning and design. List of works and publications.
Tuscany Dream - Directory of handicraft manufacturers and links to assorted regional businesses.
La Villa Cucina - Culinary travel programs hosted by award winning cooking teacher Daniel Rosati. Course details, itineraries and sample recipes.
Tuscan Word Centre - Non for profit association devoted to promoting the scientific study of language. Offers courses and site features downloadable application form.
Toscochimica S.p.A. - Wholesale distributor of organic and inorganic chemicals.
Hand Made Group - Company with offices in New York and Tuscany specializing in photography, copy-writing, production, and other mediums. Internship, locations, and services.
Pagine Toscane - Database search site for businesses in the region.
Casantonio Tuscan Ceramics - Italian Ceramics shop based in Cortona, with decorative plates and decorating ideas. Delivery world-wide, orders processed online with SSL.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "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) Business and Economy Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Business and Economy
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Business and Economy
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 Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Business and Economy "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen 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 Business and Economy
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Business and Economy "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Business and Economy
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Business and Economy We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Business and Economy
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 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Business and Economy We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Business and Economy A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Business and Economy
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Business and Economy I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong 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 Business and Economy
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words 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 "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Business and Economy "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Business and Economy
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Business and Economy He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Business and Economy
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) 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 Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Business and Economy History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Business and Economy
