Divina Cucina - Cooking lessons and food tour of the city with descriptions of some restaurants.
Florence by Bike - Bicycle rental and guided bike tours in town and surroundings. Maps, services offered and local links.
Strolling in My Town - A personal insight from Enrico, who provides images and information on many of the main attractions as well as links to sites of friends of his.
Weekend a Firenze - On line shopping and tourism information as well as reservation service for galleries and museums.
Florence Bike Pages - Resources for riding a bicycle in the city. Routes, bikepaths, itineraries with maps, althimetric profile and photographs.
Florence-holiday-info - Information about churches and museums in the city; also lists with addresses of restaurants, bars, pubs, accommodation, transport and public services.
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad 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 The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Travel and Tourism "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Travel and Tourism
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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Travel and Tourism "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Travel and Tourism Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Travel and Tourism
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Travel and Tourism Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Travel and Tourism
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 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Travel and Tourism I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Travel and Tourism
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Travel and Tourism The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Travel and Tourism
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Travel and Tourism Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Travel and Tourism
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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bre When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Travel and Tourism 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "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) Travel and Tourism
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Travel and Tourism "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Travel and Tourism
