Cycling in the Netherlands - Extensive information on this mode of transport, which is the most widely used in the Netherlands.
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "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) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Cycling In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cycling
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Cycling A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Cycling
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Cycling If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Cycling
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Cycling The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "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 Cycling
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Cycling The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Cycling
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde 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 I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Cycling Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Cycling
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Cycling "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Cycling
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Cycling 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 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Cycling
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Cycling Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Cycling
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Cycling Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer 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 Cycling
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons 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 The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Cycling Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Cycling
