Reversal of Fortunes - Reports on Leefbaar Nederland's decision (in February 2002) to drop Pim Fortuyn as its candidate for prime minister.
Dutch Right Poised for Poll Success - Leefbaar Nederland, a new anti-immigration party, makes major gains in local elections in the Netherlands two months before a national vote.
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Leefbaar Nederland If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Leefbaar Nederland
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Leefbaar Nederland A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Leefbaar Nederland
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Leefbaar Nederland Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Leefbaar Nederland
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 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Leefbaar Nederland May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Leefbaar Nederland
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Leefbaar Nederland Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Leefbaar Nederland
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett 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 My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Leefbaar Nederland "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Leefbaar Nederland
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "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) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Leefbaar Nederland It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Leefbaar Nederland
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Leefbaar Nederland Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Leefbaar Nederland
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Leefbaar Nederland Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Leefbaar Nederland
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) 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 "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Leefbaar Nederland Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Leefbaar Nederland
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Leefbaar Nederland We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Leefbaar Nederland
