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Battlefield Tours - Battlefield and military tours in Northern France and Belgium covering WW1 and Commonwealth War Graves plus Normandy WW2. The area from Ypres through Vimy to the Somme is covered.
Le Vendangeoir d'Orgeval - Offering bed and breakfast in 18th century French wine growers manor located in Orgeval.
Visit the Picardy region: Picardy's regional heritage, leisure activities, sport, tourism, gites, be - At the gateway to Paris, come and discover Picardy's cultural treasures, countryside, leisure activities, sport and gastronomy. For a week-end, a short break or your annual holidays, discover a land whose traditions and customs inspired many a writer and film-maker
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Travel and Tourism It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Travel and Tourism "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "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) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan Travel and Tourism "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Travel and Tourism The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Travel and Tourism "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde "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) Travel and Tourism The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst "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) Travel and Tourism Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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 Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Travel and Tourism blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna What's new? Most of my wife. Travel and Tourism Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats Travel and Tourism Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller Travel and Tourism Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Travel and Tourism Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Travel and Tourism "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano "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) then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Travel and Tourism The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism
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