Eymoutiers - A fortress town in the French "Great Lakes" region.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "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) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Haute-Vienne I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Haute-Vienne
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Haute-Vienne "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Haute-Vienne
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Haute-Vienne Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Haute-Vienne
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Haute-Vienne People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Haute-Vienne
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Haute-Vienne If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Haute-Vienne
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Haute-Vienne Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Haute-Vienne
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Haute-Vienne And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Haute-Vienne
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "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 Man and wife make one fool. "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Haute-Vienne We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Haute-Vienne
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Haute-Vienne Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Haute-Vienne
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Haute-Vienne One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Haute-Vienne
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) 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 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Haute-Vienne Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Haute-Vienne
