Autun Tourism - Presentation of the Autunois-Morvan region, its history, landscape and activities.
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Localities I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Localities
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Localities 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 Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Localities
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Localities Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Localities
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Localities Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Localities
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Localities "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Localities
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Localities My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Localities
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Localities Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Localities
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Localities Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Localities
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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. If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Localities I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Localities
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Localities It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Localities
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Localities He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Localities
