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Saint Joseph's Catholic Church - The Church of the Hundred Thousand Welcomes.
The American Church in Paris - Interdenominational Christian church and Franco-American community center.
Practical Paris - Provides information about living and working in Paris to the English-speaking community. Information concerns financial, social, cultural, medical, educational, transport, entertainment and vacation topics.
Saint Michael's Church - Anglican church, English-speaking congregation, in the Diocese in Europe. Includes a statement of faith, overview of church and parish, details of services, contacts, information on activities and on how to get involved.
Saint George's Anglican Church - General information for newcomers and visitors, including the history, a church diary, English language Worship, location and contacts.
Paris Professional Women's Network - Promotes the professional progress of women in business through networking, career development workshops and by providing information about companies in Europe.
This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Society and Culture "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom Society and Culture It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Society and Culture The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "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) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Society and Culture It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou Society and Culture I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Society and Culture "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 In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Society and Culture Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Society and Culture If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Society and Culture The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Society and Culture Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Society and Culture Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Society and Culture With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Society and Culture In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Society and Culture Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Society and Culture It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- 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) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Society and Culture Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Society and Culture
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