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Back to your Roots - Holland community for Dutch people and their descendants all over the world.
Dutch East-Indies Informationpoint - On Eurasian culture in the Netherlands.
Roundabout Online - Online version of a magazine on the cultural scene throughout the Netherlands.
The UnDutchables Web Site - Inspired by the highly popular book, is here for anyone interested in learning about Dutch quirks, character and customs.
Project A - The first Online Cultfilm/ Lifestyle E-zine (Dutch/English).
Real Dutch - A website about Holland, my hometown Enkhuizen and dutch traditions.
Dutch Culture and Real Amsterdam - On Dutch culture, usage of the word Dutch in English. Mostly Dutch/English site, by Quip van Winkel.
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Culture The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Culture "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 We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Culture In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Culture "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Culture People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey Culture The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Culture Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Culture Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Culture No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Culture "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Culture I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Culture "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht Culture The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Culture The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Culture We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst Culture "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Culture 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 "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Culture "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Culture You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Culture "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous 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 The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Culture Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Culture
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