Bert Bochove Story Part 5 - Personal life story mentions Hunger Winter, and helping out the Jews in Holland during World War II in The Netherlands.
Kees's Story: Memories of a Dutch Schoolboy - War stories which are the memories of a young dutch boy living under the German occupation are told from the viewpoint of a child.
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Personal Stories Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Personal Stories
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Personal Stories "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) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Personal Stories
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Personal Stories Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Personal Stories
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Personal Stories Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Personal Stories
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Personal Stories How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Personal Stories
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Personal Stories "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Personal Stories
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Personal Stories My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Personal Stories
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Personal Stories "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Personal Stories
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "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 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Stories Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Personal Stories
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Personal Stories Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Personal Stories
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Personal Stories Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Personal Stories
