Hotel Silken Alfonso X - Inaugurated in December of 2000, is located next to the Plaza Mayor and the City Council.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Ciudad Real Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Ciudad Real
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Ciudad Real For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Ciudad Real
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Ciudad Real Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ciudad Real
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Ciudad Real "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Ciudad Real
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "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, ignorance, g Ciudad Real "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "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) Ciudad Real
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Ciudad Real Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "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) Ciudad Real
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Ciudad Real Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Ciudad Real
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Ciudad Real If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Ciudad Real
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Ciudad Real Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Ciudad Real
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. 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,
ign Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Ciudad Real Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Ciudad Real
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein 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 Unha Ciudad Real "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Ciudad Real
