Les incontournables - Presentation of the Vannes Aquarium, the Butterfly Garden, the Victor Pleven and the Insectarium.
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Travel and Tourism "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Travel and Tourism
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "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 There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Travel and Tourism
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Travel and Tourism I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Travel and Tourism
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Travel and Tourism The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "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 Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Travel and Tourism
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Travel and Tourism If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Travel and Tourism
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
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It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism 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 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Travel and Tourism
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Travel and Tourism
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Travel and Tourism The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Travel and Tourism
