Great Outdoor Recreation Pages - Lists all of Spain's national parks and provides details on Ordesa, Montana de Covadonga and Donana.
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel 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 Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan National Parks It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? National Parks
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous 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 Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) National Parks "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor National Parks
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 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 If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin National Parks Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) National Parks
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson National Parks No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan National Parks
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey National Parks blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli National Parks
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) National Parks I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous National Parks
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) National Parks The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz National Parks
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) National Parks Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams National Parks
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 I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost National Parks 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 "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law National Parks
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop National Parks We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln National Parks
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones National Parks Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler National Parks
