Drachten - A page describing the history of the Frisian city of Drachten, including some pictures.
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Drachten Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Drachten
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Drachten Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Drachten
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." 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 Drachten "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Drachten
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Drachten Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Drachten
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Drachten The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Drachten
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Drachten I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Drachten
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Drachten You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Drachten
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Drachten If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Drachten
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Drachten Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Drachten
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Drachten Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Drachten
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Drachten Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Drachten
