Chartreuse - Site maintained by Carthusian monks. Lots of information on Chartreuse liqueur.
Vercors - Located in the French Alps. Activities, nature, le Parc du Vercors.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "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" Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Isere As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Isere
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Isere Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Isere
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 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Isere Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Isere
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Isere "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Isere
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber 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 Isere Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Isere
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Isere "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Isere
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Isere If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Isere
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Isere See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Isere
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Isere In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Isere
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Isere If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Isere
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Isere To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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