Portals to the World - Belguim - Annotated directory of selected online resources about Belgium. Information provided by the Library of Congress.
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I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Belgium I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Belgium
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Belgium If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Belgium
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Belgium 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Belgium
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Belgium I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Belgium
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Belgium The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Belgium
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Belgium We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Belgium
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Belgium The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Belgium
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Belgium When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Belgium
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Belgium Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Belgium
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Belgium If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Belgium
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Belgium "Think off-center." (George Carlin) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Belgium
