Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
(J.D. Salinger) #quote

Life is like this: Sometimes SUN, Sometimes RAIN.
(Fijian Proverb) #quote
and we're expecting SUN >>>> RAIN :)

The best things in the world aren't things.
(Art Buchwald) #quote

En politique, ou on se répète, ou on dit des conneries.
(François Mitterrand) #quote

Mieux vaut maintenir en place un adversaire docile qu'installer un ami indocile.
(François Mitterrand) #quote

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
(Woody Allen) #quote

Sarkozy il faut lui marcher dessus pour deux raisons :
C’est la seule chose qu’il comprenne et ça porte bonheur.
(J.Chirac) #quote

Progress always involves risks.
You can't steal second base & keep your foot on first.
(Frederick Wilcox) #quote

Un dessin qui m'a marqué, celui de Tignous sur Haïti post tremblement de terre du 12 janvier 2010 à 16 heures 53 minutes (extrait d’une compilation 2010 de Charlie Hebdo)

Men who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
(Voltaire) #quote

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
(Bhagavad Gita) #quote

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on them saying, toys not included.
(Bernard Manning) #quote

Celui qui n'a pas Noël dans le coeur ne le trouvera jamais au pied d'un arbre.
(Roy Lemon Smith) #quote

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree.
In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
(Larry Wilde) #quote

100% Christmas

Take it easy. Relax. Eat. Drink & be merry. Do not diet. Smile.

#quote

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
(Confucius) #quote

The most valuable of all talents is

that of never using two words when one will do.
(Thomas Jefferson) #quote

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
(John Fitzgerald Kennedy) #quote

Take a look @ Let's talk parenting taboos: Rufus Griscom + Alisa Volkman Video on TED.com

... and "The Most Terrifying Chart Imaginable for a New Parent"

Si Dieu n'existe pas, tout est permis.
(Dostoïevski, Les Frères Karamazov) #quote
.... Le monde serait bien une preuve de la non-existence de Dieu, tant on voit n'importe quoi!

Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
(Ogden Nash) #quote

Take a look @ Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms Video on TED.com

...
And on the 7th day they say, "God rested"
But you know that ain't the truth
'Cause on the 7th day, God made the blue
(Etta James, lyrics of "On the 7th days") #quote

Take a look @ "Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four"

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make,
but about the stories you tell.
(Seth Godin) #quote

If her DNA was off by one percentage point, she'd be a dolphin.
(Dr House) #quote

L'excès du langage est un procédé coutumier

à celui qui veut faire diversion.
(François Mitterrand) #quote

En informatique, le cobol et les Indiens font toujours bon ménage.
(Lâo Tsour Sing) #quote [Olivier Sehiaud in 'Six bonnes raisons pour passer une mauvaise année 2011' in Best Practices n° 57]

Dieu ? Je ne sais pas si j’y crois.
J’ai des regrets de ne plus avoir une conception aussi simple de la création et de son créateur.
(François Mitterrand) #quote

J’entends toujours dire que Dieu est juste.
Je me demande ce qui permet d’appuyer cette assertion.
(François Mitterrand) #quote

If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel,
I want drilling rights on George Bush's head.
(Jim Hightower) #quote

Life is not the way it's supposed to be.
It's the way it is.
The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
(Virginia Satir) #quote

Perfection is a road, not a destination.
Every time I live, I get an education.
(Burk Hudson) #quote

Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
(Albert Einstein) #quote

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
(The Talmud) #quote

Opportunity dances with those on the dance floor.
(Jackson Brown Jr)

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It cuts the hand that wields it.
(Rabindranath Tagore) #quote

Try to catch a fish with a dotted line ....
(Thanks Guy G !)

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.
(Ronald Coase) #quote

Life is like that old Spanish saying:
"He who plants the lettuce doesn't always eat the salad".
(Anthony Quinn) #quote

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set,
then there would be peace.
(John Lennon) #quote

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
(Earl Wilson) #quote
A lot of snow today around Paris - a nightmare, can't use my scooter !

John Lennon - 30 ans déjà !
...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
....
(J.Lennon, Imagine) #quote

Je m'ennuyais, voilà comment ça a commencé.
Elle m'a ennuyé, voilà comment ça a fini.
(Alexandre Dumas fils) #quote

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
(English proverb) #quote

Parler de social à Nicolas Sarkozy,
c'est comme parler de cinéma à une caméra de surveillance.
(Laurent Fabius) #quote

Demander à Nicolas Sarkozy d'en faire moins,
c'est comme demander au PS d'être efficace : mission impossible !
(Christian Estrosi) #quote

Le rôle du capitaine, c'est de tenir fermement la barre, de maintenir le cap et d'amener l'équipage à bon port;
ce n'est pas de se laisser distraire par le clapotis des vagues.
(Martine Aubry, pique à sa rivale Segolène R. :)) #quote

Life is a grindstone.
Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
(Thomas L. Holdcroft) #quote

Marketing in the future is like sex.
Only the losers will have to pay for it.
(Jon Bond) #quote

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.
(American Proverb) #quote

The hardest job kids have today

is learning good manners without seeing any.
(Fred Astaire) #quote

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.
(Zig Ziglar) #quote

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..."
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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