R-Yan online - Personal homepage of Arjan de Jong about the Christian Faith, Psion, Star Wars, books and music.
Dutch for foreigners - Intensive courses in Dutch at the Institute for Technology and Communication on Delft University of Technology. Practical information on the program, an online introduction lesson and a study helper.
Mike's Webspace - Personal homepage containing pictures of his family and a concise text about Christianity.
Digitale Stamboom Delft - Registers of births, deaths and marriages of churches, courts and the municipality. Offered by the Municipal Records Office of the City of Delft.
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Delft The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Delft
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Delft "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Delft
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Delft Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Delft
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Delft A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Delft
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Delft I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Delft
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Delft "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Delft
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Delft And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Delft
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. 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." ( Delft Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Delft
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Delft An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Delft
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Delft "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Delft
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Delft There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Delft
