Sbandieratori Firenze - Featuring the ancient tradition of flag waving and juggling. Explanation and details of history, with photographs and contact information.
Firenze Arti Visive - An international visual arts program. Semester, year long courses and summer classes in studio art, art history and Italian language. Offers students independent housing.
Cupola Live - Web-cam from Brunelleschi's cupola of the Cathedral S. Maria del Fiore.
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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
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-- Max Beerbohm Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
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-- Robert Benchley Arts and Entertainment A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
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-- Oscar Wilde In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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-- Helen Rowland If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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-- John Heisman Arts and Entertainment Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
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-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
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"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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do.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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- Niels Bohr A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
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-- Charles Brower Arts and Entertainment The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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-- Thornton Wilder I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
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in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
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"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
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-- Betty Bender By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
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"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
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"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Arts and Entertainment "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Arts and Entertainment
