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13/05/2008, 12:37 Clair Joined on 23/08/2004 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 6,243 Re: Favourite quotations... Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal Clair, a Real Virtual French Person La vérité est si obscurcie en ce temps et le mensonge si établi, qu'à moins d'aimer la vérité, on ne saurait la reconnaître. (Blaise Pascal)    Report

13/05/2008, 15:06 Nickel Joined on 02/10/2007 Lot Posts 163 Re: Favourite quotations... The great cellist Pablo Casals, when aged just over 80 proposed marriage to an attractive 20 year old pupil. She accepted and on his wedding day his doctors advised - "but Mr Casals if you try and consummate this marriage the consequences could be fatal". To which he replied "well if she dies ... she dies!"  It's not dark yet ......but it's getting there.    Report

13/05/2008, 16:20 Cathy Joined on 07/03/2006 Mostly near Bordeaux; Sometimes near Bristol Posts 1,684 Re: Favourite quotations...  now just john wrote: I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. ~ Gilda Radner Very poignant, John. Nous ne pouvons pas tous faire de grandes choses, mais nous pouvons faire des petites choses avec beaucoup d'amour. We cannot all do big things but we can do little things with a lot of love. Mother Teresa in 1979, Nobel Peace Prize Cathy ----- Your children won't remember you ironing their pyjamas but they will remember you reading them a bedside story.    Report

13/05/2008, 20:05 Christine Animal Joined on 14/05/2005 Deux-Sèvres Posts 4,111 Re: Favourite quotations... "You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going." P.J. O'Rourke   animalaidsaintaubin.monsite.orange.fr/ Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful    Report

13/05/2008, 22:01 Frenchie Joined on 31/05/2007 2 Sèvres,79 Posts 3,509 Re: Favourite quotations...  Christine Animal wrote: Here's one for Frenchie. "I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."   Paul McCartney   Merci Christine ! "Les talons hauts ont été inventés par une femme qu'on embrassait toujours sur le front." Marcel Achard ( High heeled shoes were invented by a woman who was always kissed on the forehead " )  Happy    Report

15/05/2008, 10:26 now just john Joined on 28/04/2005 Montignac le coq Posts 364 Re: Favourite quotations... Raining again no doubt Krusty would like this one, May was full of promises But she didn't keep 'em quickly enough for some And the crowd of doubtin' Thomases Was predictin' that the summer'd never come But it's comin' by gum, you can hear it come, You can hear it in the trees, You can smell it in the breeze Look around! Look around! Look around!                        -   Carousel - Oscar Hammerstein      Report

15/05/2008, 11:11 Christine Animal Joined on 14/05/2005 Deux-Sèvres Posts 4,111 Re: Favourite quotations... Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.  Abrahalm Lincoln   animalaidsaintaubin.monsite.orange.fr/ Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful    Report

15/05/2008, 11:55 now just john Joined on 28/04/2005 Montignac le coq Posts 364 Re: Favourite quotations... Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.  ~ Mignon McLaughlin    Report

15/05/2008, 15:23 britgirl Joined on 10/01/2008 29 Finestere Posts 44 Re: Favourite quotations... "Talk accompanies work: work does not accompany talk. There is a differance." No wonder I was in trouble at school and when I worked. I always got the two mixed up. Happy days.        Report

15/05/2008, 17:18 Frenchie Joined on 31/05/2007 2 Sèvres,79 Posts 3,509 Re: Favourite quotations... Un élève n'est pas un vase qu'on remplit mais un feu qu'on allume.. A pupil is not a vase that you fill, he is a fire that you start.. Happy    Report

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