Maison St. Denis - Bed and breakfast in 18th Century house. Presentation, photos, location. Sancerre.
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Lodging If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Lodging
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Lodging Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Lodging
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Lodging The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Lodging
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Lodging "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Lodging
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Lodging "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Lodging
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Lodging
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Lodging It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Lodging
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words 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 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Lodging My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Lodging
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Lodging 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 People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lodging
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Lodging The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Lodging
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Lodging If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Lodging
