Coordinadora Catalana de Fundacions - Listing of over 350 associated foundations of Catalonia. Catalog of services and foundations, registration form, publications list.
Catalan Encyclopaedia - This encyclopaedia in English includes all the articles that refer to Catalonia that can be found in the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana (also available on-line).
Friends of Gaspar de Portola - Catalonia-California. History and activities of the Association. News, publications and contacts.
The Museum La Noguera - The Museum of La Noguera seeks to be an obligatory point of reference in the understanding of the imprint that Islam left of the territory that is today Catalonia.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Society and Culture A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Society and Culture
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all 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 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Society and Culture
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Society and Culture Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Society and Culture
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Society and Culture
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Society and Culture Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Society and Culture In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Society and Culture
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Society and Culture Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Society and Culture
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 "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' Society and Culture
Marriage is a rest period between romances. I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Society and Culture I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
