Indo-galegos - Yahoo! group for indo-galician community.
Pontevedra - Town council site offering an overview of the area, its attractions, and accommodations.
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA 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 "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Galicia "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Galicia
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Galicia We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Galicia
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Galicia Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Galicia
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Galicia Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) 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 Galicia
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Galicia The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Galicia
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Galicia I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Galicia
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Galicia Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Galicia
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Galicia You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone 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 "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Galicia
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Galicia My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Galicia
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Galicia Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Galicia
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Galicia The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "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) Galicia
