Ademe - Agency for Environment and Energy Management.
Foundation Nicolas Hulot - The foundation aims at developing environmental education by providing material and grants.
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Ecology Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Ecology
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "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) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Ecology "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars 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 Ecology
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 To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Ecology Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Ecology
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Ecology If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Ecology
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Ecology Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Ecology
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Ecology "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Ecology
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Ecology Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Ecology
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Ecology Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Ecology
"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) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ecology A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Ecology
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Ecology Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Ecology
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Ecology If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince 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, An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Ecology
