Deuringshoeve - Bed and breakfast appartments in Gramsbergen. With prices and picture.
HB Groep - An international specialist in the fields of cooling, as well as product and process drying. Information on the technical process, with pictures.
DSV - Information for this fencing club operating out of the University of Twente. Information on the sport and on activities.
Corton - Designs, manufactures and installs horse stalls and related equipment. Photo galleries are provided. Located in Kampen. Available in English, French, Dutch and German.
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Overijssel Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Overijssel
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "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) Overijssel If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Overijssel
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Overijssel "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) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Overijssel
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Overijssel 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 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 "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Overijssel
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Overijssel The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Overijssel
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Overijssel A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Overijssel
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Overijssel The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Overijssel
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) 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 "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Overijssel "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Overijssel
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Overijssel "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Overijssel
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Overijssel All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Overijssel
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Overijssel Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Overijssel
