Jacques Chirac/first Cohabitation 1986%e2%80%931988 and Desert Crossing

Famous quotes containing the words cohabitation, desert and/or crossing:

    Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
    Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
    I have it in me so much nearer home
    To scare myself with my own desert places.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    This was charming, no doubt: but they shortly found out
    That the Captain they trusted so well
    Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
    And that was to tingle his bell.
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)