Languages in Luxembourg - Introduction to the languages spoken in the principality, including usage of Luxembourgish. With sources about that language.
American Women's Club of Luxembourg - Support organisation for American women living abroad. Information about upcoming meetings, calendar of events, activities and photos.
British Ladies CLub Luxembourg - A social club for English speaking women in Luxembourg regardless of nationality. Information about the club and activities. [Some parts of the site are only available to members]
Club Polyglotte Luxembourg - A language society which organises sociable meetings to practice foreign languages. Information about the club and events.
The Irish Club Of Luxembourg - Caters for the needs of Irish people in the Grand Duchy and promotes Irish social, cultural and sporting activities.
Irish Community Portal - Gives details of Irish-related clubs, services, news and events in and around Luxembourg.
Pawee Collective - Underground collective within the anarchopunk movement. Organises political and countercultural activities. Information about their background, ideas and activities.
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Society and Culture
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Society and Culture "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Society and Culture
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Society and Culture "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Society and Culture
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Society and Culture When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Society and Culture
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Society and Culture Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller 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 "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Society and Culture
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) 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 sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Society and Culture There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Society and Culture
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Society and Culture Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Society and Culture
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Society and Culture Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Society and Culture "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Society and Culture
