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Basque Arts - Culture, music, books, products on sale... an initiative born in Lapurdi.

Institute of Basque Culture - Euskal Kultur Erakundea (EKE) - The Institute of Basque Culture promotes the culture of the Northern Basque Country : music, art, dance, theater and the basque language.

City of Bayonne - Practical information, news, city hall services, tourism, culture, sport, economy, education.

Biarritz - A coastal town, and a historic tourist spot since the early 1800's. Official site includes history, tourism information, and web cam.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Pyrenees-Atlantiques "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost Pyrenees-Atlantiques "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker "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) Pyrenees-Atlantiques Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m Pyrenees-Atlantiques Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Pyrenees-Atlantiques Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. Pyrenees-Atlantiques "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West Pyrenees-Atlantiques Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein "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 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Pyrenees-Atlantiques We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph 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 Pyrenees-Atlantiques A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham Pyrenees-Atlantiques Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Pyrenees-Atlantiques Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at Pyrenees-Atlantiques "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marriage is a rest period between romances. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence Pyrenees-Atlantiques Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Pyrenees-Atlantiques "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Pyrenees-Atlantiques Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Pyrenees-Atlantiques Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Pyrenees-Atlantiques By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Pyrenees-Atlantiques There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Pyrenees-Atlantiques Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Pyrenees-Atlantiques In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson Pyrenees-Atlantiques Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Pyrenees-Atlantiques
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