Major Events in Dutch History - Covers some major events in Dutch history, such as the Anglo-Dutch Wars, colonial history and the World Wars. With pictures.
History of Wieringen - A comprehensive look at the history of Wieringen, a former island in the Zuiderzee now connected to the Dutch mainland.
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald History If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb History
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show History
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) History You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton History
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard History The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) History
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen History "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician History Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom History
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad History Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant History
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard History "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. History
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne History The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. History
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) History I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx History
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. History I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard History
