Lest We Forget - Photographs and story of a Dutch WWII soldier and Indonesia Stoottroeper, my daddy
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Military "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Military
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Military Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "'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) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Military
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Military We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Military
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Military A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Military
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) 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 Military I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Military
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Military Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Military
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Military When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Military
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "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 Military Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Military
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Military Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa 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 Military
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Military "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Military
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) 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 Military I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Military
