Sunday, May 25, 2008

17th list of 10 French songs you love

1.Il faudra leur dire-Francis Cabrel
2.Que je t'aime-Johnny Hallyday
3.Si douce a mon souvenir-Claude Francois(This song is a French version of the 1967 hit song 'GENTLE ON MY MIND' by Glen Campbell)
4.Une Femme Avec Toi-Nicole Croisille
5.Toi et le soleil-Claude Francois(This is a French version of the 1972 Johnny Nash hit song 'I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW.')
6.L'Orage-France Gall
7.A demain sur la lune(1969)-Salvatore Adamo
8.Les Marionnettes(1966)-Christophe(Bevilacqua)
9. Vin d'ete(1967)-Claude Valade et Robert Demontigny
10.Pour toi c'est rien,pour moi c'est tout(1974)-Patricia Lavila

Friday, May 23, 2008

Three good quotes

1.Women want mediocre men,and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.-Margaret Meade
2.You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard,but by attacking ,and getting well-hammered yourself.-George Bernard Shaw
3.You will never stub your toe standing still.-U.S.inventor Charles Kettering

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Ten great quotes and proverbs

1.Time gives good advice.-Maltese proverb
2.What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?-George Eliot
3.Knowledge comes by taking things apart.But wisdom comes by putting things together.-John A.Morrison
4.Books worth reading once are worth reading twice ;and what is most important of all,the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times.-John Morley
5.Three things it is best to avoid:a strange dog,a flood,and a man who thinks he is wise.-Welsh proverb
6.Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.-Jim Butcher,WHITE NIGHT.
7.Writing is so hard when I have to,and so easy when I want to.-Sondra Anise Barnes
8.Those who do not study are only cattle dressed in men's clothes.-Chinese proverb
9.Self-discipline is the fruit of discipline;the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.-Abraham Joshua Heschel
10.It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.-Henry Allen

Monday, May 19, 2008

Three more good quotes

1.How do you ever get credit for the things you manage not to say?-English journalist Katharine Whitehorn
2.I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety,because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.-Woodrow Wilson
3.The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good,so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs.-John Stuart Mill

Four great quotes

1.Nature composes some of the loveliest poems for the microscope and telescope.-U.S.sociologist
Theodore Roszak
2.Ours is the age of substitutes:instead of language we have jargon;instead of principles,slogans;and instead of genuine ideas,bright ideas.-U.S.critic Eric Bentley
3.A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.-US essayist Clifton Fadiman
4.A gentleman does not utter everything he thinks.-Nigel Nicholson

Saturday, May 17, 2008

16th list of 10 French songs you like a lot

1.Ils ont change ma chanson(1971)-Dalida
2.La Tendresse-Daniel Guichard
3.Je ne suis rien sans toi-Mireille Mathieu
4.Tous Les Jours de La Semaine(1973)-Pierre Letourneau
5.L'Autre Cote de la Cloture-Pierre Letourneau
6.Ces bottes sont faites pour marcher(1966)-Muguette
7.Mon credo(1966)-Mireille Mathieu
8.Corsica-Mireille Mathieu
9.Je ne suis que de l'amour(1975)-Nicole Croisille
10.Emmanuelle-Pierre Bachelet

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Five great quotes

1.A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.-Thomas Mann
2.There are three sides to every story-yours,mine,and all that lie between.-Jody Kern
3.Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.-Alan Watts
4.Tolerance is the positive and cordial effortto understand another's beliefs,practices and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.-Joshua L.Liebman
5.Formerly we used to canonize our heroes.The modern method is to vulgarize them.Cheap editions of great books may be delightful,but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.-Oscar Wilde

Saturday, May 10, 2008

15th list of 10 French songs you like a lot

1.Quand revient la nuit-Johnny Hallyday(This song is a French version of the Bobby Vinton 1964 song 'MR. LONELY')
2.Soleil,Soleil-Nana Mouskouri
3.Minuit,le vent,la nuit(1969)-Francois Deguelt
4.Avant de nous dire adieu-Jeane Manson
5.Oh Lady Mary-David Alexandre Winter
6.Camarade-Jean Ferrat
7.Marche Tout Droit-Claude Francois(This song is the French version of the 1963 hit song 'WALK RIGHT IN' by The Rooftop Singers)
8.Salut Les Amoureux-Joe Dassin
9.Donne Moi Ma Chance-Richard Anthony
10.Le Dernier Grand Slow-Joe Dassin

Four great quotes

1.Do not shorten the morning by getting up late;look upon it as the quintessence of life,and to a certain extent sacred.-Arthur Schopenhauer(1788-1860),German philosopher,pessimist and recluse
2.Virtue itself needs limits.-French thinker Montesquieu
3.It's like paradise with a lobotomy.-Description of Los Angeles by Neil Simon in CALIFORNIA SUITE.
4.Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out.If there's nothing ,or very little,the shock can kill a man.-Ernest Hemmingway

Friday, May 09, 2008

Two great quotes about books

1.Books are the carriers of civilization.Without books,history is silent,literature is dumb,science crippled,thought and speculation at a standstill.-Barbara Tuchman
2.People without curiosity are like houses without books:there's something unsettling about them.-Nikki Gemmell in ''Cleave".
1.Love much.Earth has enough of bitter in it.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
2.After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.-Evelyn Underhill

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Four great quotes and proverbs

1.Trend is not destiny.-U.S. social critic Lewis Mumford
2.One always knocks oneself on the sore place.-French proverb
3.Suffering often feels like failure,but it is actually the door into growth.-U.S. poet and journalist May Sarton,JOURNAL OF SOLITUDE
4.Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought;our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.-British lexicographer Samuel Johnson(1709-84) in THE IDLER

Six great quotes and proverbs

1.Sweep first before your own door,before you sweep the doorstops of your neighbours.-Swedish proverb
2.To my extreme mortification,I grow wiser every day.-Lord Byron
3.There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.-Charles F.Kettering
4.The power of imagination makes us infinite.-John Muir
5.The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.-Michael Faraday
6.Science belongs to no one country.-Louis Pasteur

Eight great quotes and proverbs

1.To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.-Sugar Ray Robinson
2.Skepticism is slow suicide.-Emerson
3.Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.-Spurgeon
4.I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.It's all how you look at it.-J.Kenfield Morley
5.Economy does not consist in saving the coal,but in using the time while it burns.-Emerson
6.The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.-Malcolm F.MacNeil
7.Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.-Christian Bovee
8.No man can deliver the goods if his heart is heavier than the load.-Frank Irving Fletcher

Monday, May 05, 2008

14th list of 10 French songs you like a lot

1.C'est trop facile-Julie Arel
2.Mieux que personne-Julie Arel
3.C'est Impossible-Sacha Distel
4.Je pense a toi-Michel Delpech
5.Accroche un ruban-Sacha Distel(This is the French version of the Tony Orlando and Dawn 1973 hit song'Tie A Yellow Ribbon Around The Old Oak Tree.')
6.N'est ce pas merveilleux-Salvatore Adamo
7.Sur Un Air De Banjo(1964)-Sacha Distel(This is a French version of the 1963 Village Stompers song'Washington Square')
8.Le Monde Est Grand,Les Gens Sont Beaux-Claude Francois
9.Douce Candy-Claude Francois(This is a version of the 1969 song 'Sugar,Sugar' by The Archies)
10.Moi je voudrais bien me marier-Claude Francois

Sunday, May 04, 2008

A trio of quotes for Sunday

1.Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgment.-Roy L.Smith
2.Originality is unexplored territory.You get there by carrying a canoe-you can't take a taxi.-Alan Alda
3.Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.-Salvador Dali

Five great quotes and proverbs

1.I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.-W.Somerset Maugham
2.A proverb never lies,it is only its meaning which deceives.-German proverb
3.Pray,pray very much;but beware of telling God what you want.-French proverb
4.Economy is going without something you do want in case,you should,someday,want something you probably won't want.-Anthony Hope(1863-1933),English novelist
5.He who is frugal is the richest of men,and the miser is the poorest.-Chamfort(1714-94),French satirist

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Six great quotes or proverbs

1.If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a nonconformist,it 's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.-Bill Vaughn
2.The partner of my partner is not my partner.-Legal maxim
3.We only hear questions that we are able to answer.-Friedrich Nietzsche
4.Those who dream by day know many things which escape those who dream only by night.-Edgar Allan Poe
5.Success is the best revenge.-French proverb
6.If you want to make enemies,try to change something.-Woodrow Wilson

Two quotes for healthy living freaks

1.Q.Happy 103rd Birthday,Mr.Zukor.What is the secret of your long life?
A.I gave up smoking two years ago.-Adolph Zukor(1873-1977),film mogul and head of Paramount Pictures.

2.Q.You're eighty-six years old.You smoke ten cigars a day,drink five martinis a day,surround
yourself with beautiful women.What does your doctor say about all this?
A.'My doctor is dead.'-George Burns(1896-1996),actor,comedian and writer

Friday, May 02, 2008

13th list of 10 French songs you like a lot.

13th list of 10 French songs you like a lot.

1.C'est Zero-Julie Maas
2.La Legende de Jimmy-Diane Tell
3.Tout donne,tout repris-Mike Brant
4.Chacun Son Refrain-Jacques Michel
5.La Berceuse Rock n' roll-Bruce Huard
6.L'idee de t'aimer-Emmanuelle
7.La Plage aux Romantiques-Pascal Danel
8.Un Monde Avec Toi-Raymond Berthiaume
9.J'Entends Ta Voix-France D'Amour
10.Stewball-Hugues Aufray

13th list of 10 French songs you like a lot.

Ten great quotes and proverbs

1.A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.-Chinese^proverb
2.Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.-Kurt Vonnegut,HOCUS PÔCUS
3.One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.-Edward Bulwer Lytton
4.A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think that he is the only one who can save the ship.-Ivern Ball
5.Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.-Richard Ben Sapir
6.Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.-Theodore Roosevelt
7.An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.-Malcolm Muggeridge(1903-90)
8.Man is at his best when his courage enables him to prevail in a hopeless situation.-Eric Hoffer
9.Intelligence is a tool to be used towards a goal,and goals are not always chosen intelligently.-Larry Niven
10.The greater the wealth,the thicker will be the dirt.-J.k.Galbraith

Thursday, May 01, 2008

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