The Chaplaincy of Aquitaine - A group of Anglican parishes in the Diocese in Europe offering prayer and worship in English. Includes links to individual parishes with information about services, location, community and directions.
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Aquitaine You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Aquitaine
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Aquitaine "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Aquitaine
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aquitaine I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Aquitaine
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous 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 Aquitaine "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "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) Aquitaine
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Aquitaine "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Aquitaine
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The 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 Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Aquitaine Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Aquitaine
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Aquitaine blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Aquitaine
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Aquitaine Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Aquitaine
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Aquitaine There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Aquitaine
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Aquitaine To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Aquitaine
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 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 And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Aquitaine The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Aquitaine
