Duinrell Wassenaar - A family fun park in the west of Holland, near the Hague.
Kinderdijk.org - Official Kinderdijk tourist information pages which include the history of the miller and the windmill, plus many unique pictures of Kinderdijk and its surroundings.
Nemo - Educational attraction, discover a world of science and technology in an entertaining way. Includes information on the attraction.
Giethoorn - Venice of Holland - Giethoorn is a beautiful place to visit because of its bridges, waterways and "punters" (typical boats from Giethoorn). Information on water tours. With pictures.
Zaanse Schans - Open air museum with wooden houses, factories and windmills near Amsterdam. History and overview of the attractions.
Photo tour of Keukenhof - A photo gallery and slide show tour of Keukenhof - The Kitchen Garden in spring time in Lisse, Holland.
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Attractions Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Attractions
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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Attractions It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Attractions
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins 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 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Attractions He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Attractions
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Attractions 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 "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Attractions
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare 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 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Attractions 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 "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Attractions
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea 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 Attractions People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Attractions
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 The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Attractions No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Attractions
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Attractions We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer 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 Attractions
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Attractions I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Attractions
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Attractions "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) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Attractions
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Attractions "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Attractions
