La Mancellière - 12 acre farm with 2 gîtes. The main 18th century Farmhouse sleeps 8, the 17th century Cottage sleeps 6. Joué du Plain.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Orne Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas 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 Orne
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Orne Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Orne
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "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 Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Orne A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Orne
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Orne Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Orne
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Orne I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Orne
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Orne 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 "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Orne
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Orne Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Orne
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 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Orne "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Orne
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Orne And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Orne
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Orne In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Orne
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Orne "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Orne
