Resources for Spain - Provided by the University of Kansas. Includes hundreds of organized links to historical associations, bibliographic resources, libraries, archives, museums and publishers.
Columbus and the Age of Discovery - Text retrieval system of over 1000 articles, speeches. conference papers, and opinions on encounter and discovery themes from Millersville University.
Historia a Debate - A sustained network which brings together historians from all over the world, through both activities where they are present and the web, in and outside the academic institutions.
WWW Virtual Library: Spanish History Index - Provides links to various gateways, journals, organizations, and other resources relating to the history of Spain, organized by geography, chronology, or topic.
History of Bilbao, Biscay. Basque Country - Bilbao been has populated from very old, long before its foundation like villa, and thus they testify the found archaeological findings in its subsoil.
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster History Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller History
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp History I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin History
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty History We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers History
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado History Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) History
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the 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 nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson History A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) History
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 History I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 History
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French History Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn History
"'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) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) History Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf History
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks History Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 History
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) History Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings History
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi History "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms History
