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Life in Spain - Offers personal information and suggestions for those relocating to Spain.
Iberia - Chronicles/adventures of an expatriate Texan married to a Spanish national living on the Costa de la Luz.
The American Society of Barcelona - Formed to develop and maintain professional and social relationships among U.S. nationals in Barcelona. Contains resources, links, newsletter, and calendar of events.
Spain Expat - The Resource for Expats in Spain. Up-to-date information on the best way to get health insurance, exchange money, hook up to the web and buy an apartment.
ExpatsInSpain - A guide, forum and free email accounts for expatriates.
Practical Hints to Living in Spain - A recent emigre shares tips and observations for those wishing to move to Spain. Includes property purchase, health matters, cars and other issues relating to spanish residency.
Spanish Gold - Information about moving to Spain.
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Expatriate Life Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Expatriate Life The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Expatriate Life Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker Expatriate Life "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Expatriate Life CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Expatriate Life "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Expatriate Life I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf Expatriate Life I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken Expatriate Life 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 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Expatriate Life The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Expatriate Life Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Expatriate Life If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Expatriate Life You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( 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 Expatriate Life "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Expatriate Life They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Expatriate Life Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Expatriate Life One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Expatriate Life When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson Expatriate Life Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln Expatriate Life Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Expatriate Life Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Expatriate Life
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