Chapel of Juhègues - Romanesque chapel near the village of Torreilles, built in the 11th century. Photographs, history and details of access and festivities.
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Pyrenees-Orientales Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming 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 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Pyrenees-Orientales Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Pyrenees-Orientales
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
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-- Ed Howe "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Pyrenees-Orientales Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
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Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Pyrenees-Orientales Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "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) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Pyrenees-Orientales A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Pyrenees-Orientales
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Pyrenees-Orientales All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Pyrenees-Orientales
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Pyrenees-Orientales I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Pyrenees-Orientales
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Pyrenees-Orientales "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Pyrenees-Orientales
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Pyrenees-Orientales 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 "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Pyrenees-Orientales
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Pyrenees-Orientales The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Pyrenees-Orientales "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Pyrenees-Orientales
