Trevoux - Official site. Historic capital of the Dombes Principality.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Ain "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Ain
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain 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 blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Ain Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Ain
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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. Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Ain "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Ain
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Ain Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Ain
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Ain Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Ain
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Ain Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky My other wife is beautiful. The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Ain
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great 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 "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Ain A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Ain
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 "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Ain The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Ain
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer 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 Ain "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Ain
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Ain The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Ain
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein 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 Ain Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Ain
