BeWell Healthcare - Medical care in France for UK citizens. Includes information on partner hospitals, procedures, prices and contact details.
Counselling In France - Information on English-speaking counsellors in various regions of France.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Health For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Health
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Health Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Health
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Health "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Health
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Health The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Health
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. 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 The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Health Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Health
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Health The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Health
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Health An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Health
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Health 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 He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Health
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Health "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Health
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
[text_end]
[text_start]
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Health "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Health
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Health I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Health
