Basque Eurocity Bayonne-San Sebastián - The provincial government of Gipuzkoa and the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz district creating a new cross-border urban reality.
Juntas Generales of Gipuzkoa - Maximum device of representation and popular participation of the Historical Territory of Gipuzkoa.
Orfeón Donostiarra - Founded on 1897, the well-known Orfeón Donostiarra is a choral grouping with seat in Donostia - San Sebastian.
Plataform for Invert and Enjoy - This is how Gipuzkoa presents itself to the rest of the world: as a Platform with excellent investment prospects and as an ideal setting for a pleasant lifestyle.
Community Co-financing - Committed to economic and social cohesion through community co-financing of Gipuzkoa.
Service of Publications - Sale and distribution of the publications published by the Regional Council of Gipuzkoa.
Gozaz Net - Information about Gozaz: Getaria, Orio, Zarautz, Aia, Zumaia, and Zestoa.
UZEI WebSite - Basque Centre for Terminology & Lexicography for any basque speaker can use their own language accurately and precisely in any specialist field.
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Gipuzkoa Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Gipuzkoa
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Gipuzkoa The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Gipuzkoa "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Gipuzkoa
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 Gipuzkoa A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Gipuzkoa
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Gipuzkoa "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Gipuzkoa
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Gipuzkoa I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Gipuzkoa
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Gipuzkoa Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia 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 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Gipuzkoa
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Gipuzkoa Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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 Gipuzkoa
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Gipuzkoa Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Gipuzkoa
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Gipuzkoa It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Gipuzkoa
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous 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 Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Gipuzkoa Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Gipuzkoa
