Dutch Colonial History - Dutch colonial history in Arabia Gulf, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Brazil, Taiwan, Ghana, Macao, Timor, colonial remains of forts and heritage, maps.Â
The United States of America and the Netherlands - Site with a focus on shared Dutch-American history. Answers many questions about colonization, trade and commerce, modern migration, and the other ties between the two countries.
300 years Ghana & Holland - Information about the Dutch in Ghana and Ghanaians in the Netherlands. Including history and current events.
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Colonial History We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Colonial History
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Colonial History Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Colonial History
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Colonial History I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Colonial History
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Colonial History The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Colonial History
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Colonial History To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Colonial History
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Colonial History For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Colonial History
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Colonial History I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Colonial History
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Colonial History "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Colonial History
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson 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 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Colonial History The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Colonial History
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Colonial History I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "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 Colonial History
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Colonial History "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Colonial History
