Relais & Chateâux - A collection of more than 400 châteaux, country houses and restaurants, scattered around the world.
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Heritage Accommodations "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Heritage Accommodations
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Heritage Accommodations "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Heritage Accommodations
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Heritage Accommodations The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "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 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Heritage Accommodations
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru 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 Heritage Accommodations "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) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Heritage Accommodations
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Heritage Accommodations Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
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>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Heritage Accommodations blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Heritage Accommodations
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Heritage Accommodations "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Heritage Accommodations
"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" The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Heritage Accommodations Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Heritage Accommodations
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Heritage Accommodations "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Heritage Accommodations
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Heritage Accommodations I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Heritage Accommodations
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Heritage Accommodations Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
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