Princess Mathilde Yahoo! Group - Online fan club dedicated to Crown Princess Mathilde of Belgium. Photos and discussion forum as well as related links.
The Monarchy in Belgium - Official federal government site. Information about the members of the Belgian royal family as well as speeches, photographs, and historical background of the Castle of Laeken.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Monarchy I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Monarchy
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Monarchy Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Monarchy
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Monarchy Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Monarchy
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Monarchy Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Monarchy
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Monarchy The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Monarchy
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Monarchy If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Monarchy If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Monarchy
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Monarchy Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Monarchy
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Monarchy Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Monarchy
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins 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 great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Monarchy I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Monarchy
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Monarchy When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Monarchy
