Newcomers Club Directory for Spain - A directory of clubs and organizations in Spain, which are designed to give people new to the area the opportunity to meet and develop friendships with others who live in the area.
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Organizations Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Organizations
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 Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Organizations If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Organizations
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Organizations Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organizations
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 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Organizations I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Organizations
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Organizations "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Organizations
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Organizations Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane 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 Organizations
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Organizations Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Organizations
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Organizations Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Organizations
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Organizations blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Organizations
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Organizations 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 "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Organizations
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Organizations "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) 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 Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Organizations
