Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes - The group (ING) operates three world-class telescopes in the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma, on behalf of the British PPARC and Ducth NWO.
Canarian Dreams International - Sports and activity holidays in the Canary Islands - including surfing, diving, windsurfing - we also offer naturist holidays and cruises.
Institutum Canarium - Scientific association for the interdisciplinary research on the Canary Islands and Mediterranean Cultures.
Canary Islands Photos - Photos of the canary islands tenerife, gran canaria, la palma and la gomera.
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Canary Islands I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Canary Islands
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Canary Islands Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Canary Islands
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Canary Islands When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Canary Islands
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Canary Islands "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "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) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Canary Islands
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Canary Islands May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Canary Islands
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Canary Islands It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Canary Islands
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Canary Islands I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Canary Islands
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Canary Islands There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Canary Islands
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Canary Islands You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Canary Islands
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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Canary Islands A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Canary Islands
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Canary Islands Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Canary Islands
