Royal Tropical Museum - The institute supports non-Western countries in sustainable development and informs the public about the tropics and sub-tropics.
Airbornemuseum - General information, collection, school projects and news of this museum located in Oosterbeek, commemorating the history and events connected to Operation Market Garden, and the Battle of Arnhem, in World War II.
Houseboat Museum Amsterdam - Details on the flooting museum about life on board a "typical" houseboat in an Amsterdam canal.
Netherlands Maritime Museum Amsterdam - Tells the story of the maritime past of the country. Practical information for visitors and descriptions of highlights in the collection.
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Museums Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Museums
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Museums >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "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" If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Museums
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Museums The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Museums "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Museums
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Museums We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Museums "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Museums
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Museums "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Museums
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Museums A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Museums
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Museums "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Museums
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Museums There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Museums
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Museums I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Museums
