Travel and Tourism Links

Return to Main
Link to our Web Page
Up One Level
:: Europe :::: France :::: Regions :::: Auvergne :::: Cantal :::: Travel and Tourism ::

Travel and Tourism Links

Saint-Flour Office of Tourism - The town, its history, activities. Accommodation and restaurants, visits in the region.

Lioran Office of Tourism - Includes activities, weather, area information, maps, accommodation and ski listings, and contact information.

Cantal Volcanic Views - Geology, geography, agricultural history, flora and fauna.

Cantal Walking - Information on precautions, food and wine, accommodation and other activities in the area.

"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Travel and Tourism Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Travel and Tourism Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Travel and Tourism Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Travel and Tourism The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Travel and Tourism "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 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Travel and Tourism Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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 Travel and Tourism A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Travel and Tourism When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes Travel and Tourism You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. Travel and Tourism Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker "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 "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Travel and Tourism Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland 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 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 Travel and Tourism What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "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) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Travel and Tourism Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Travel and Tourism "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan Travel and Tourism "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle Travel and Tourism Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster 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 was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Travel and Tourism
Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |