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Caslano.com - Community website with information about the community, local links, maps.
SFSO - Cantons in profile: Ticino - Swiss Statistics - Key data.
Vallemaggia - Maggia Valley tourist office.
Bellinzone - World Heritage inscription in 2000: brief entry on the three castles, defensive wall and ramparts of the market-town.
Enrico Ghilardi's Home Page - A collection of links in English and Italian for tourism in Ticino, Switzerland.
Vico Morcote Residenz - 3 apartments in new villa for sale. Floorplans, images, location map, and contact details provided.
Lugano Airport - Flight details, access information, statistics and history, services available, and operational information for pilots.
Jazz Ascona - Annual festival devoted to traditional and classical jazz. Dates, artist information, program, news, audio samples, FAQ, contact details, and press releases provided.
Prompt Auto - Davesco - Car accessories including wheels, body panels, batteries, snow chains, and tools. Product range and contact details included.
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 People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain Ticino If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Ticino Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Marriage is a rest period between romances. Ticino Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Ticino Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Ticino Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Ticino Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ticino We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words Ticino A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Ticino Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers Ticino Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Ticino All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Ticino Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Ticino "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson Ticino My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Ticino "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Ticino "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ticino "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Ticino Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Ticino A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ticino A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan Ticino "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) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ticino
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