Royal Military Academy of Belgium - University institution which prepares students for service as officers in the Armed Forces. Academic and research programs, history and news, detachement information, and related links in English, Dutch, French and German.
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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
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-- Betty Shabazz Police and Armed Forces "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Police and Armed Forces
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Police and Armed Forces The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
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-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Police and Armed Forces Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Police and Armed Forces
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Police and Armed Forces You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb 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 Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Police and Armed Forces
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
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-- Nick Mirov The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Police and Armed Forces He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Police and Armed Forces
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Police and Armed Forces The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Tear open packet, unfold and use.
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What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Police and Armed Forces When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Police and Armed Forces
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Police and Armed Forces Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Police and Armed Forces
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
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organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Police and Armed Forces
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Police and Armed Forces "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Police and Armed Forces
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Police and Armed Forces He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Police and Armed Forces
