Catholics versus Huguenots - Distinct viewpoints of religious discord in France 1560-1572 by Jennifer Harrison.
English Speaking Church of Grenoble - An intercontinental church society within the church of England. Contains information on services and activities.
Chaplaincy of Poitou-Charentes - English language services and fellowship in Charente, Charente Maritime, Deux Sevres, and Vienne in France. Includes details of services, location, the clergy, additional chaplaincy details and related links.
St Andrew's Church, Anglican Chaplaincy in Pau - A church in the Diocese in Europe offering details of services, location and directions, an overview of the church, parish news, list of lesson readers and related links.
St. Bartholomew's Church - An Anglican church providing English-speaking worship in the seaside resort of Dinard. Provides historic details, an overview of the congregation, a schedule of services, how to find the church and a picture album.
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone 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 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Christianity Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Christianity
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Christianity We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Christianity
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Christianity Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Christianity
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Christianity Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Christianity
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 The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Christianity I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Christianity
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Christianity There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Christianity
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 A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Christianity The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Christianity
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 "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) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "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" Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Christianity "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Christianity
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Christianity "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Christianity
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Christianity You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "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 am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Christianity
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Christianity "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) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Christianity
