Village house for vacations - Traditional village house with lovely views in La Fresneda, an unspoilt village in Aragon.
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Lodging If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Lodging
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Lodging To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Lodging
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lodging What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Lodging
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Lodging Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Lodging You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Lodging
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Lodging "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Lodging If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Lodging
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Lodging There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Lodging
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Lodging When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "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 Lodging
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Lodging There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Lodging
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Lodging Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Lodging
