Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Perigord 1754-1838 - The association Les Amis de Talleyrand presents the life and the action of Talleyrand, a French diplomat and politician from the time of Napoleon. The site offers a bibliographical database of 2000 entries.
Henri IV of France - Detailed site about Henri III of Navarre (1553-1610) who against the odds, became Henri IV of France. Includes profiles of contemporary figures and a bibliography.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer 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, Historical Personages There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Historical Personages
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Historical Personages They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Historical Personages
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Historical Personages Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Historical Personages
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Historical Personages Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Historical Personages
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Historical Personages I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Historical Personages
Man and wife make one fool. Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "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) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Historical Personages In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland 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 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Historical Personages
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Historical Personages Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Historical Personages
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Historical Personages "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Historical Personages
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Historical Personages If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Historical Personages
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Historical Personages "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Historical Personages
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Historical Personages "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Historical Personages
