The Menin Gate - Collection of modern-day photos and film footage of the Menin Gate, erected in the aftermath of World War I.
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Ypres - Ieper "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Ypres - Ieper
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Ypres - Ieper When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Ypres - Ieper
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Ypres - Ieper The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Ypres - Ieper
"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 "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Ypres - Ieper What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Ypres - Ieper
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Ypres - Ieper Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e 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 Ypres - Ieper
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Ypres - Ieper Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Ypres - Ieper
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Ypres - Ieper There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Ypres - Ieper
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Ypres - Ieper "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Ypres - Ieper
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Ypres - Ieper As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Ypres - Ieper
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Ypres - Ieper I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Ypres - Ieper
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Ypres - Ieper I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Ypres - Ieper
