Valls de Canillo - The web page of the tourism information center of Canillo, with all year around activities.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Canillo "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Canillo
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Canillo I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Canillo
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Canillo Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Canillo
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Canillo We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Canillo
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Canillo It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Canillo
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Canillo There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Canillo
"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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Canillo "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Canillo
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Canillo The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Canillo
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Canillo The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Canillo
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Canillo Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Canillo
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Canillo "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Canillo
