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De Verre Volken - Bookseller specializing in ethnographic art books, situated inside the National Museum of Ethnology.
Dutch Archives - Specialises in doing historical research in archives and libraries in the Netherlands and Belgium. Description of the activities, contact information.
The Gateway to Leiden - A guide to this historic city. History, attractions, leisure, shopping, accommodation, restaurants and conferences.
Totem - Event management firm. Services, profile, references.
Beautiful Leiden - Collection of pictures showing windmills, churches and other buildings in Leiden and the surrounding area.
Hehua Translation Agency - Translation in Dutch, English and Chinese.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker Leiden After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Leiden Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Leiden I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Leiden What's new? Most of my wife. A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Leiden Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Leiden "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Leiden Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Leiden Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein 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 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Leiden The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin Leiden Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Leiden "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Leiden Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 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 Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin 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 Leiden "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen Leiden "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson Leiden The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Leiden It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Leiden Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Leiden blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken "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, Alice in Wonderland We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Leiden The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Leiden In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Leiden I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Leiden
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