Erasmus at Granada - An Erasmus student's experience and suggestions for the ones to come.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Education Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Education
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Education Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Education
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Education The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Education
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "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) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Education In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Education
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Education It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Education
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "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 Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Education Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Education
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Education A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Education
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Education To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Education
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Education Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Education
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Education People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "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 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Education Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Education
