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Carnival of Venice - Festival history, events, photo gallery and suggestions to visitors on sightseeing.
In Venice Today - Art, fun and culture in the city. Museum guide, photo-tour, information on hotels and restaurants.
Galleria Regina - Displays and sells Murano glass.
Galleria del Leone - Offers painting, etchings and sculpture from contemporary artist and old masters. Includes overview, images, exhibitions and information about the artists.
V&A - Gallery specialising in vintage and modern Murano glass and contemporary art. Includes images, exhibition details and online store.
Venice Agenda - Searchable calendar of events. Includes exhibitions, music, theatre, dance, traditions, religious events and sports.
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge 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 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler Arts and Entertainment Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso Arts and Entertainment Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless "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) Arts and Entertainment I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Arts and Entertainment Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand "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 am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Arts and Entertainment Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Arts and Entertainment I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Arts and Entertainment Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence Arts and Entertainment The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin Arts and Entertainment I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Arts and Entertainment Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Arts and Entertainment Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Arts and Entertainment When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Arts and Entertainment Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Arts and Entertainment "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Arts and Entertainment 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 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Arts and Entertainment The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Arts and Entertainment We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law Arts and Entertainment In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Arts and Entertainment His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th 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 Arts and Entertainment
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