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Standaard Uitgeverij - Publicer of strips, books and educational/scientifical work. (Nederlands, English, Français)
Publishers Van In - Publishing house Van In is specialised in publishing instructional devices and software (educational and administrative) for primary, secondary, higher and adult education, both for the French-speaking and Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. (Dutch, French and English versions)
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Books It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Books If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright Books Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton Books "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Books Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Books "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Books Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Books He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Books In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" "'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) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Books In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Books A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Books Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb Books "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Books I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous Books It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Books Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Books "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life Books Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Books In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Books "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Books Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France Books
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