Central Rural - Bookings office of rural tourism in Catalonia.
Tourism Catalonia Net - On-line services for travelers to Barcelona, Costa Brava, and Catalan Pyrenees. Information and reservations for farmhouses, villas, apartments and hotels. With general travel info.
Catalonia Golf Holidays - UK-based company offering golf holidays to Catalonia. Hotel details, course information and contact details.
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Travel and Tourism 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 If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Travel and Tourism Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Travel and Tourism
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Travel and Tourism The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller 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 There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Travel and Tourism blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Travel and Tourism
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine 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 I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Travel and Tourism In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Travel and Tourism
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Travel and Tourism
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Travel and Tourism
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Travel and Tourism As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism 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 The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Travel and Tourism The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Travel and Tourism
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Travel and Tourism The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
