In the long run the pessimist may be proved right,
but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
(Daniel L. Reardon) #quote

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
(George Burns) #quote

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature....
(Helen Keller ) #quote

Welcome aboard the good ship ass kisser. Nice day for a sail.
(Dr House) #quote

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.
Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down.
Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
(Zig Ziglar) #quote

Contre les médisances il n'est point de rempart.
A tous les sots caquets n'ayons donc nul égard,
Efforçons-nous de vivre avec toute innocence,
Et laissons aux causeurs une pleine licence
(Molière, in Le Tarfufe) #quote

Life is too short to stress yourself with people who don't even deserve to be an issue in your life.
(Unknown) #quote

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising?
Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public;
Ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
(Vilhjalmur Stefansson) #quote

Life is tough, but I'm tougher
and I can't choose how I feel,
but I can choose what I do about it.
(Andy Rooney) #quote

In the final analysis,
the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.
(Dalai Lama) #quote

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way.
An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
(Charles Bukowski) #quote

! 2 000 eme post, depuis août 2006, déjà !

Be civil to all,
sociable to many,
familiar with few,
friend to one,
enemy to none.
(Benjamin Franklin) #quote

The hardest thing in life is to know

which bridge to cross & which to burn.

(David Russell) #quote

Etrange expression quebecquoise que "Mon chien est mort" pour signifier que tout espoir est perdu (quel que soit le sujet ...)

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
(Wrigley Jr., William) #quote

We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.
(General Douglas MacArthur) #quote

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
(Mark Twain) #quote

A un confrère qui s'indignait de la pratique de copie / plagiat d'un historien (connu sous le pseudonyme de G.Lenotre) un sage répondit :
"Après tout, que fait-il ? Il prend du tien, il prend du mien et il signe Lenotre..."
#quote

Life is a sum of all your choices.
(Albert Camus) #quote

Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.

Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
(Chinese proverb) #quote

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies.
The only variable is about what.
The weird (great): thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities.
You find out what matters to them.
What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.
(Dr House) #quote

On n'exécute pas tout ce qui se propose,
Et le chemin est long du projet à la chose.
(Molière In Tartuffe) #quote

The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. (Gil Stern) #quote

Bear Is Cool !

Nouveau panneau qui orne désormais la porte de mon bureau :)

Merci Julie & Olivier.

"2020, ca dépasse de loin ma propre espérance de vie politique ... " (N.Sarkozy, interview TV du 16/11)
... mais qu'est-ce que va veut dire ? votre action se limite à votre cadre "d'espérance politique", pas plus loin ? #quote

You see the world as it is, and you see the world as it could be. What you don't see is what everybody else sees:

the giant, gaping chasm in between.
(Dr House to Cuddy) #quote

Skate to where the puck is going, not where it is.
(Wayne Gretzky) #quote

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells

you it's going to be a butterfly.

(R. Buckminster Fuller) #quote

Politics : The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
(Ambrose Bierce) #quote -- hummm !

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man;
if you want anything done, ask a woman.
(Margaret Thatcher) #quote

Put your money where your mouth is !
#quote

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) #quote

Pessimist: A person who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
(George Bernard Shaw) #quote

Optimism : The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
(Ambrose Bierce) #quote

All great changes are preceded by chaos.
(Deepak Chopra) #quote

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist the hole.
(Oscar Wilde) #quote

There is nothing more dangerous than the moment you become a hostage to yesterday's comfort zone.
(Rob Thompson) #quote

Life is a tragedy for those who feel,
and a comedy for those who think.
(La Bruyere) #quote

Passé un certain âge, pour avoir l'air frais, il faut venir du dehors.
(Jean Gabin) #quote

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe.
You have to make it fall.
(Che Guevara) #quote

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
(Helen Keller) #quote

Nature has given women so much power
that the law has very wisely given them little.
(Samuel Johnson) #quote

Wilson : Be yourself - cold, uncaring, distant
House : Please, don't put me on a pedestal
#quote

Life is like a role of toilet paper;
hopefully long and useful, but it always ends at the wrong moment.
(Rudyh) #quote

C'est ce qui divise les hommes qui multiplie leurs différents.
(Pierre Dac) #quote

I am extraordinarily patient,
provided I get my own way in the end.
(Margaret Thatcher) #quote