Benelux Beerguide - Beer information from Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Information about tastes, styles, and breweries.
Benelux W3C Office - Regional contact point for the activities of the World Wide Web Consortium.
Benelux: A Travelogue - About Evelyn Leeper's 1990 visit to The Netherlands and Belgium.
D-Link Benelux - Manufacturer of networking and data communications products. Product catalogue, overview of distributors and resellers.
Benelux Trademarks Office - A common admistration to standardize trademark legislation among the Benelux countries.
Comfort Tours - Tours by car in The Netherlands and Belgium, with information on the towns visited.
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Benelux 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 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Benelux
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Benelux Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Benelux
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Benelux Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Benelux
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Benelux The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Benelux
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Benelux "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Benelux
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Benelux When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Benelux
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Benelux Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Benelux
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. Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau 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, Benelux "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Benelux
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Benelux I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Benelux
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Benelux Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Benelux
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 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 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Benelux That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Benelux
