Valencia World - The first all electronic daily in the Valencian Community.
Valencia Life - Magazine serving the business and leisure interests of the Valencian Community.
Costa Blanca News - English language newspaper covering North and South Costa Blanca (Alicante).
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran 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 Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) News and Media I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 News and Media
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to News and Media Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa News and Media
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins News and Media May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday News and Media
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "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) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole News and Media "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler News and Media
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet News and Media "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST News and Media
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) News and Media I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. News and Media
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. News and Media Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler News and Media
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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 It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) News and Media The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey News and Media
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) News and Media "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb News and Media
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry May you never leave your marriage alive. "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius News and Media The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone News and Media
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 News and Media
