Topix.net: Netherlands - News from the Netherlands gathered from various sources on the web.
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Netherlands Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Netherlands
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Netherlands "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Netherlands
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Netherlands Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Netherlands
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Netherlands "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) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Netherlands
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Netherlands The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Netherlands
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Netherlands "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Netherlands
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Netherlands "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Netherlands
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Netherlands There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Netherlands
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Netherlands Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Netherlands
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Netherlands "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Netherlands
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Netherlands "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Netherlands
