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Interwad - Intended to provide a forum for questions, answers and ideas about the Wadden Sea.

DRF--Friesland International--Home - Digital Region Friesland home of the Frisians worldwide

Mobile Water Supply - Gives information on the supply systems for fire service and disaster management, consisting of portable floating pumps, large diameter hoses and hose handling systems.

Hotel Bordine - Bed and Breakfast in Leeuwarden. Information on the town and services.

The Island of Föhr Genealogy - Resources for people seeking information about their ancestors from the island of Föhr. Includes a surname index, history of the region, and guestbook for posting of queries.

CNAL Ltd. - Company developing and selling art/promotion products, particularly Friesian art cows and horses, and promoting art-cow-events. [English/Dutch]

Holiday photos Schiermonnikoog - Holiday and other photos of one of the nicest Dutch islands: Schiermonnikoog. With description of the island.

De Kuilart - Bungalows and camping places at five stars camping. Information on possible activities and route to get there.

Het Stadhouderlijk hof - Four stars hotel in the centre of Leeuwarden. With pictures and information on the service.

California Classics - Classic cars specially imported from California. With online pictures of the cars.

Fishermanvilla on the IJssel Lake - Descriptions and pictures of two holliday houses in Makkum.

I-Friesland - Provides the history of Friesland and links to a online dictionary, forum and guestbook.

Dairy Farm Camping - Includes area information, rates and location details, also links to attractions.

Friesland Campings - Information and pictures of four campings, includes location and area details.

Studio/Bed and Breakfast in Leeuwarden - Fully furnished studio with wide view over canal.

Fishermans House - Vacationvilla in Makkum with wide view over the Lake and veranda above the water. For Rent.

Aan de Kade - Studio bed and breakfast in the centre of Leeuwarden, Friesland. Fully furnished with a wide view over a canal with old ships.

FNMA Charters BV - Yacht charter which rents luxurious motor yachts for bareboat sailing.

Boarnshiem - Milk cattle farm with camp site, bed and breakfast and group accommodation in Aldeboarn. Informs about the facilities and touristical possiblities.

Glazenburg - Bed and Breakfast in Sneek. With information on prices.

Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio Friesland Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Friesland Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Friesland Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Friesland The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Friesland Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Friesland If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger 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 I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf Friesland You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Friesland Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope Friesland The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Friesland "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper Friesland 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 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Friesland "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce "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) Friesland The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone Friesland Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Friesland What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Friesland 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 Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Friesland If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Friesland We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at Friesland Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Friesland Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Friesland Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Friesland
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