Osona Globus - Hot-air ballon flights around the Osona region.
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland 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 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay 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 Gurb It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) 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 Gurb
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Gurb Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Gurb
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Gurb "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Gurb
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Gurb "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Gurb
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Gurb >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Gurb
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Gurb In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Gurb
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata 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 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Gurb Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Gurb
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Gurb "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gurb
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Gurb God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Gurb
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) 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 Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Gurb Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Gurb
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Gurb "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Gurb
