IHS - Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies. With pictures of Rotterdam, information on departments, online publications and information on educational efforts.
St. Mary's Anglican and Episcopal Church - An English speaking church in the Rijnmond area. Provides a history with photographs, church location and directions.
JFK Homepage - Personal homepage with an virtual tour of Rotterdam.
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Society and Culture Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society and Culture
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 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 Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Society and Culture Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Society and Culture
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 Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Society and Culture Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Society and Culture
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Society and Culture Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Society and Culture
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Society and Culture "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Society and Culture
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Society and Culture You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Society and Culture Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Society and Culture
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Society and Culture
