Mahymobiles - Private collection in central Belgium, exhibiting a diverse range of vehicles, starting from the beginning of the century.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Hainaut "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Hainaut
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Hainaut Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Hainaut
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Hainaut Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Hainaut
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Hainaut The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hainaut
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Hainaut Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hainaut
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Hainaut "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Hainaut
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Hainaut We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Hainaut
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Hainaut "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Hainaut
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Hainaut Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Hainaut
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hainaut "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Hainaut
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hainaut Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Hainaut
