Lier - Virtual nocturnal tour through the city of Lier (Belgium). It's jampacked with lots of interesting facts and explanations so people can get an idea of the town's history.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Localities Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Localities
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "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 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Localities
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Localities Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Localities
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Localities 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 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Localities
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Localities Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Localities
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Localities The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Localities
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin 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 The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Localities "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Localities
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Localities Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Localities
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Localities Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Localities
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Localities It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Localities
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Localities
