Architecture of Vicenza - Buildings of Vicenza in the Great Buildings Online database: images, descriptions and sources.
Discover Vicenza - Guide to the town. Includes historical outline, gastronomy, wines and economy.
Vicenza Army Chapel - The US Army Chapel and SETAF Ministry Teams offer Christian and other denominational worship services, activities, counselling, spiritual guidance and support.
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Vicenza The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Vicenza
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Vicenza Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Vicenza
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Vicenza Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Vicenza
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Vicenza Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Vicenza
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student 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 Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Vicenza None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Vicenza
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Vicenza All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer 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 I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Vicenza
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Vicenza I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Vicenza
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Vicenza In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Vicenza
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Vicenza "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vicenza
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Vicenza "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Vicenza
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "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) Vicenza "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Vicenza
