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Le Plumier - Various items, descriptions, photos, on-line sales.
Armorial - Leather goods and luxury items. Paris.
French Gift Shop - Offers traditional gifts, home and fashion products; limoges, tablecloths, pewter, faience, crystal, silk, wine and cigar accessories.
Cafe of France - Food and various products such as cosmetics, gifts. Company based in Acheres.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work Gifts Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Gifts "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Gifts As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Gifts Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "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) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson Gifts It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Gifts He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde "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) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Gifts The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates Gifts Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers Gifts I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gifts You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Gifts "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe Gifts Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Gifts "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S Gifts Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Gifts "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker Gifts If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Gifts "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard Gifts "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Gifts Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Gifts What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Gifts When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides Gifts
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