Welcome to Versailles - Information on local business and the city council, as well as suggested itineraries for tourists.
Chateau of Versailles - Information on the chateau, including opening times and educational information.
Versailles,the Chateau de Versailles - About 100 high quality photos of Versailles by French artist photographer G d'Alba : the castle,the park,the Trianons and queen's hamlet
Paris-Versailles Association - Site for the annual run from Paris to Versailles. Information on the event, including registration information and route details.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Yvelines You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Yvelines
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "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 Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Yvelines Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Yvelines
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller 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
didn' I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Yvelines Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Yvelines
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Yvelines Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Yvelines
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Yvelines "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Yvelines
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Yvelines Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Yvelines
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Yvelines You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Yvelines
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Yvelines In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Yvelines
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Yvelines Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Yvelines
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Yvelines "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 Yvelines
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Yvelines Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Yvelines
