Serveur Savoie - Introduction to Savoie's villages, culture, museums, history, local language, regionalist movements, wildflowers, and the local Reblochon cheese. Includes links to other local sites.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Savoie The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Savoie
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Savoie "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Savoie
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Savoie Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Savoie
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 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Savoie Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Savoie
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Savoie Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Savoie
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Savoie Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Savoie
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Savoie Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Savoie
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Savoie If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Savoie
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Savoie If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Savoie
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Savoie "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Savoie
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Savoie Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Savoie
