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American School of Madrid - A common meeting ground in order to facilitate communication amongst all student, alumni and parents.
Benjamin Franklin International School, The - With a curriculum designed to prepare students for entrance to a college or university and reflects the latest educational methods found in the United States of America, Spain, and the world.
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau American I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley American
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein American Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) American
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t American The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) American
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had American We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal American
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Spinster: A bachelor's wife. American If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa American
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. American If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) American
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "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 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac American Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde American
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw American Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) 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.
-- Anonymous When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe American
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 American Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) American
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert American Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard American
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless American Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France American
