Topix.net: France - News from France gathered from various sources on the web.
... 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
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire France Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde France
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco France When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw France
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) France I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) France
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein France "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) France
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller France The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx France
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) France "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens France
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin France 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 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) France
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch 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 France "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe France
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton France If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed France
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen France Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy France
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) 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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to France "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan France
