The Entertainer Online - News, commentary and essays on Eastern Almeria for residents and friends of the area. Based in Mojacar. Updated daily.
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Almeria 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 The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Almeria
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Almeria Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Almeria
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Almeria Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Almeria
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Almeria Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Almeria
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Almeria We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Almeria
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Almeria Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Almeria
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Almeria "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Almeria
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Almeria It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Almeria
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Almeria "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Almeria
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Almeria Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Almeria
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) 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 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Almeria Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Almeria
