Tuscan Women Cook - Weeklong hands-on culinary and cultural adventures in a hilltop town near Siena.
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Travel and Tourism
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Travel and Tourism Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Travel and Tourism
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Travel and Tourism No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Travel and Tourism
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous 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 Travel and Tourism Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Travel and Tourism
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Travel and Tourism 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 Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Travel and Tourism
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Travel and Tourism Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Travel and Tourism
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst 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 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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, Alice in Wonderland Travel and Tourism If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Travel and Tourism "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Travel and Tourism
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
