Encamp - The main town of the parish of Encamp. The ski resort of Pas de la Casa-Grau Roig is located in this parish.
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Encamp Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Encamp
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Encamp He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Encamp
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Encamp Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Encamp
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 "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Encamp "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Encamp
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Encamp "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Encamp
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Encamp We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Encamp
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "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) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Encamp The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Encamp
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Encamp Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Encamp
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Encamp Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Encamp
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Encamp If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Encamp
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Encamp Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Encamp
