Rotterdam Experience - Personal experiences from young inhabitants of Rotterdam as well as young tourists from abroad, to reveal the unknown side of the city.
Gemeente Rotterdam - Official site of the municipality offering practical information for new residents, Rotterdam as ICT city and links to other government websites in English.
Medical Centre For Seamen - Healthcare for sailors in the port of Rotterdam. With contact data, articles and some pictures.
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Rotterdam The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Rotterdam
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Rotterdam Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Rotterdam
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Rotterdam Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Rotterdam
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Rotterdam Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Rotterdam
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Rotterdam Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Rotterdam
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Rotterdam Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rotterdam
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward 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 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Rotterdam Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Rotterdam
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Rotterdam Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Rotterdam
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Rotterdam He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Rotterdam
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Rotterdam The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Rotterdam
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Rotterdam Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Rotterdam
