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Pas-de-Calais Links

The Ould Shebeen Irish Pub - Irish Pub in Arras. Photos and a history of the pub.
Pas-de-Calais - Official site, contains comprehensive information on the region with details of tourist offices.
Port of Calais - Information about the port for tourists and businesses. Includes links to the sites of shipping and ferry operators.
The Anglican Church in the Pas de Calais - A group of English-speaking parishes offering worship, teaching, evangelism, friendship and fellowship. Includes information on each parish, services, communities, a message from the chaplain and contact details.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf 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 Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs Pas-de-Calais 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 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Pas-de-Calais Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous "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) Pas-de-Calais Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Pas-de-Calais The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Pas-de-Calais A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Pas-de-Calais Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford Pas-de-Calais Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy Pas-de-Calais Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Pas-de-Calais Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Pas-de-Calais University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Pas-de-Calais If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Pas-de-Calais Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Pas-de-Calais Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown Pas-de-Calais "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Pas-de-Calais A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis Pas-de-Calais "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Pas-de-Calais "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th "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 Pas-de-Calais It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Pas-de-Calais If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford "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) Pas-de-Calais No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Pas-de-Calais "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Pas-de-Calais
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