Coëvrons - Region combining historical heritage and countryside with outdoor activities.
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Mayenne "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) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Mayenne
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Mayenne A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Mayenne
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Mayenne "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Mayenne
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Mayenne "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mayenne
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Mayenne Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Mayenne
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Mayenne My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Mayenne
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mayenne "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Mayenne
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Mayenne 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Mayenne
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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 Mayenne Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Mayenne
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Mayenne No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Mayenne
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Mayenne If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Mayenne
