John Stone - Department of English and German Philology, University of Barcelona. Links to materials for undergraduate and M.A. courses. Academic CV. Links to PDF request pages.
Josep Vidal Alaball - This is a site about my job (Medicine) and my Country (Catalonia). You will get my CV on line, information about Catalonia and same medical topics.
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The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Personal Pages Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Personal Pages
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Personal Pages When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Personal Pages
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Personal Pages It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Personal Pages
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 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 Personal Pages "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Personal Pages
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Personal Pages The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personal Pages
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Personal Pages If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Personal Pages
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Personal Pages
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 I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Personal Pages Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Personal Pages
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) 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 Personal Pages The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Personal Pages
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 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Personal Pages He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Personal Pages
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Personal Pages As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Personal Pages
