The Royal Household of Spain - Part of an English introduction to the Spanish government, including detailed biographies of the members of the royal family.
The Royal House of Bourbon (Spain) - One-page site with a coat of arms and portraits and parentage of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain.
Felipe de Borbón - An admirer's site with news, photos, links, and information about the Spanish Crown Prince.
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Royal Family Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Royal Family
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Royal Family "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Royal Family
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Royal Family "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Royal Family
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Royal Family "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Royal Family
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Royal Family "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) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Royal Family
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Royal Family There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Royal Family
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Royal Family If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Royal Family
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) 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 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Royal Family Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Royal Family
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Royal Family I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball 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 The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Royal Family
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Royal Family "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Royal Family
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Royal Family I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Royal Family
