The Senate of Spain - House of the Cortes Generales. What it is, how it works, and to learn more. With translation of the Constitution.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Government "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Government I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Government
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Government The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Government
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Government LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Government
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Government The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Government
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Government Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Government
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Government Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Government "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Government We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Government
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Government Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Government
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Government Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 Government
