Hospederia Convento de La Parra - Charmig hotel located in and old 17th centruy convent in La Parra, Badajoz, Extremadura. One of the 2001 CN Traveller Hot List hotels.
The Rural Spain - Holiday villas for sale and to let in rural location on the south of Extremadura, close to the border with the Sevilla and Cordoba provinces.
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Extremadura "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Extremadura
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Extremadura Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Extremadura
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Extremadura I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Extremadura
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Extremadura 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 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Extremadura
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Extremadura The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Extremadura
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "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..." ( "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Extremadura The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Extremadura
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Extremadura Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Extremadura
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Extremadura There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Extremadura
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Extremadura A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Extremadura
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "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 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Extremadura "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Extremadura
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Extremadura One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Extremadura
