Battelli del Brenta - Boat excursions from Padua or Venice. Details and photographs with history of the service.
Venice Day Tours - Offering small group day tours of Palladian villas and Vicenza, the Dolomites and Cortina, Asolo, Bassano del Grappa and the Prosecco wine road.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Tour Operators "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Tour Operators
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Tour Operators "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "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) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Tour Operators
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Tour Operators You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Tour Operators
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 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Tour Operators "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Tour Operators
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Tour Operators Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Tour Operators
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Tour Operators Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Tour Operators
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Tour Operators "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Tour Operators
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Tour Operators A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tour Operators
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Tour Operators "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Tour Operators
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Tour Operators I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Tour Operators
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 "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) 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 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Tour Operators In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Tour Operators
