Hotel Palacio de Valderrábanos - Located near Avila Cathedral. Inside the city wall declared heritage of the humanity by the UNESCO.
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff May you never leave your marriage alive. Avila Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Avila
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Avila Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Avila
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.
-- Crowf "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Avila Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "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' Avila
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Avila The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Avila
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy 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 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Avila Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Avila
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Avila "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 I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Avila
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Avila Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Avila
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Avila "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Avila
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Avila "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Avila
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Avila Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Avila
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder 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 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Avila I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Avila
