Voorburg Cricket Club - Information on teams, players and trainers. Contact information, competition results.
Restaurant Hotel Savelberg - Located in a historical building, dating from the eighteenth century. Information about rooms and suites, online menu, prices.
Voorburg Gallery - Old and recent pictures of this town. With information on historical subjects.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Voorburg Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Voorburg
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Voorburg Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Voorburg
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Voorburg Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Voorburg
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Voorburg The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Voorburg
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "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 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 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Voorburg Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Voorburg
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Voorburg One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Voorburg
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Voorburg An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Voorburg
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Voorburg Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Voorburg
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Voorburg One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin 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 Voorburg
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Voorburg Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Voorburg
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Voorburg I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Voorburg
