Le Nord-Pas-de-Calais - Links about the history, geography, tourism, arts, and cooking of the region. Mostly in French.
The Other Side - Interactive guide to Nord Pas-de-Calais written for visitors from the United Kingdom.
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Nord Pas-de-Calais Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Nord Pas-de-Calais
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau 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 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Nord Pas-de-Calais The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Nord Pas-de-Calais
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Nord Pas-de-Calais My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Nord Pas-de-Calais
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Nord Pas-de-Calais "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Nord Pas-de-Calais
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Nord Pas-de-Calais Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Nord Pas-de-Calais
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Nord Pas-de-Calais A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Nord Pas-de-Calais
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Nord Pas-de-Calais There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Nord Pas-de-Calais
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Nord Pas-de-Calais Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nord Pas-de-Calais
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Nord Pas-de-Calais Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nord Pas-de-Calais
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Nord Pas-de-Calais Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Nord Pas-de-Calais
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Nord Pas-de-Calais Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. 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 Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Nord Pas-de-Calais
