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France Time - Information on the country: news, weather, web-cams, events, features, tours, some basic French phrases. An index of French products and books on France sold online on other sites.
InfoFrench - Basic information about France, its culture, history, geography, and economy. Includes links to French radio stations.
France.com - Directory of recommended sites covering travel and tourism, business and shopping.
Portals to the World - Annotated directory covering a broad range of subjects selected by Library of Congress specialists.
Gourmet France - Web resources about French food, culinary travel to France, and gourmet recipes.
AngloInfo - Information resource about business, shopping, health, sports, travel for Brittany, Côte d'Azur and Normandy.
France Pub - Portal to information, links and data about France and the French.
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Guides and Directories Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Guides and Directories I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Guides and Directories We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Guides and Directories Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Guides and Directories When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Guides and Directories Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Guides and Directories Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "'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) Guides and Directories "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Guides and Directories I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Guides and Directories A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Guides and Directories Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard 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 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill Guides and Directories "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 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 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Guides and Directories We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil Guides and Directories A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney "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 Guides and Directories "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde 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 Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Guides and Directories "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Guides and Directories "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Guides and Directories Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Guides and Directories Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito Guides and Directories There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde Guides and Directories
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