Nerja Weather - Amateur weather station with ten years of weather statistics presented in tabular form.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Nerja It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Nerja
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Nerja Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Nerja
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Nerja Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Nerja
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Nerja Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Nerja
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "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 Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Nerja The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Nerja
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy 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 Nerja You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Nerja
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Nerja One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Nerja
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Nerja 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 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Nerja
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Nerja "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Nerja
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Nerja Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Nerja
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Nerja Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Nerja
