Cathedral of San Marco, Venice - Plan, photographs, brief history and critical analysis of this Italo-Byzantine marvel by Michelle Roberts.
Venetian Historic Sites - Interactive 360-degree views of the main squares; photographs and brief histories of major historic buildings, provided by Venezia.net.
Architecture of Venice - Venetian buildings in the Great Buildings Online database: images, descriptions and sources.
Palazzi Veneziani - Jan-Christoph Rößler provides images, information and references on Venetian palaces. [German and English.]
S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari - Ciao Venezia provide a detailed, illustrated description of the basilica built by Franciscan friars (1340-1445), rich in art treasures. Ground plan and tour.
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Architecture This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Architecture
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Architecture Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Architecture
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Architecture Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Architecture
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Architecture Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Architecture
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Architecture Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Architecture
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Architecture "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Architecture
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Architecture Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Architecture
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Architecture Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Architecture
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Architecture Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Architecture
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) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Architecture I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Architecture
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Architecture Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Architecture
