BamJam Productions - A collection of pictures of the Dutch Wadden Islands.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Wadden Islands Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Wadden Islands
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Wadden Islands "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) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Wadden Islands
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Wadden Islands Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Wadden Islands
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Wadden Islands Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Wadden Islands
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Wadden Islands If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Wadden Islands
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 Wadden Islands It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Wadden Islands
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Wadden Islands 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 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Wadden Islands
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Wadden Islands There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wadden Islands
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Wadden Islands If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Wadden Islands
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "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) 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 It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Wadden Islands May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Wadden Islands
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Wadden Islands "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Wadden Islands
