Majorca Daily Bulletin - Daily news and information for english-speaking residents in the Balearic Islands. Information in English since 1962.
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) News and Media "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
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The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen 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" News and Media "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain News and Media Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle News and Media
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) News and Media This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb News and Media
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve 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" The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings News and Media
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells News and Media The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) News and Media
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca News and Media "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "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) News and Media The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski News and Media
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "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 Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson News and Media
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) News and Media The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) News and Media
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. News and Media Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) News and Media
