Planete Puy de Dome - Brief information on tourist and business activities in this department, from the Conseil Generale.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Puy-de-Dome True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Puy-de-Dome
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin 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 Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Puy-de-Dome More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Puy-de-Dome
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Puy-de-Dome We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Puy-de-Dome
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Puy-de-Dome Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Puy-de-Dome
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Puy-de-Dome "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Puy-de-Dome
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Puy-de-Dome A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Puy-de-Dome
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Puy-de-Dome I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Puy-de-Dome
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Puy-de-Dome To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Puy-de-Dome
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Puy-de-Dome "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Puy-de-Dome
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Puy-de-Dome If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Puy-de-Dome
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Puy-de-Dome Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Puy-de-Dome
