Italica - Personalized full-immersion Italian language courses and seminars in the Chianti region, at client's desired location. Description of types of courses offered, services, and possible locations.
Chianti Musei - Dedicated to museums located in the Florentine area of Chianti. Details on collection contents with photo gallery, opening hours and contact information.
Tuscia Electa - Biennial art exhibition held throughout Chianti area. Interviews and photographs of past edition's participating artists and map of locations where exhibits are displayed.
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "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) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Chianti Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Chianti
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Chianti Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) 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 Chianti
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Chianti 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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Chianti
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Chianti Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Chianti
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Chianti Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Chianti
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James May you never leave your marriage alive. "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Chianti A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Chianti
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Chianti 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 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Chianti
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Chianti 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 most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chianti
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Chianti Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Chianti
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chianti A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Chianti
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Chianti A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Chianti
