Frogvillas - A selection of villas in the Sanguinet, Biscarrosse and Sion regions. Prices, booking and links.
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Lodging "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Lodging
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Lodging I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Lodging
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Lodging I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Lodging
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Lodging If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric 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 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Lodging
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Lodging The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Lodging
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Lodging For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Lodging
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Lodging They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Lodging
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Lodging It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Lodging
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams 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 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Lodging
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr 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 We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Lodging "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Lodging
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Lodging 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 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Lodging
