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Le Francophile - Bilingual magazine of French culture. Offers articles and news in English and French.
Paris Tempo Magazine - News and information about living and travelling in Paris, French culture, society, politics and Parisian life.
Creating French Culture - Treasures from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, exhibited at the Library of Congress, render an historical blueprint of France from the period of Charlemagne through that of Charles DeGaulle.
La Marseillaise - Information about the French national anthem. Background, sheet music, audio files, lyrics in French and English.
Avenue France - Information about France, its culture and its people. Topics covered are cuisine, literature, history, geography, language. A discussion board is available.
About.com: French Culture - A starting place for learning about French culture. Provides information on a variety of major cities, traditional gastronomy and photo albums.
People Going Global - France - Collection of commented links to sites dealing with subjects such as culture and government.
Discover France! - Discover the arts, cuisine, history, language, literature, and travel destinations of France. Explore Paris, 21 provinces, overseas departments, former colonies; plus daily news, events calendar, feature articles.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Society and Culture That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Society and Culture We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "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) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett 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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Society and Culture "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Society and Culture In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Society and Culture May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford Society and Culture We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Society and Culture "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Society and Culture "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley Society and Culture I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Society and Culture Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Society and Culture We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost 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 Society and Culture Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Society and Culture It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies Society and Culture Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Society and Culture Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Society and Culture "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Society and Culture By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain 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 last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
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