Budapest

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire

Budapest

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell

Berlin, Haus des Rundfunks, Prix Europa

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.

Nick Diamos

Grand Halleux, Belgium

Fall is my favorite season, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

David Letterman

Grand Halleux - desert after the hunting party

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

Berlin

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Arlo Guthrie

Baraque Michel Belgium

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Budapest

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Cato the Elder

Budapest

At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
Boris Spassky

Atomium, Brussels

Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.

Murray Walker

Baraque Michel, Belgium

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

Julien Green

Durbuy

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Oscar Wilde

Brussels, Royal Park

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Wilde

Bled, Slovenia

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker

Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatia
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
(Mediterenian traveller and great admirer of Ragusa)

Konstanjevica na Kriki, Slovenia

The best mirror is an old friend

Piran, Slovenia, Campanille

“He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.”

William Shakespeare

Koper, Slovenia

“The trouble ain't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”

Mark Twain

Pyrenees, GR10 & HRP

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pyrenees, near Pic du Canigou

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

Pyrenees, Tempest on the frontier between Spain and France

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Bertrand Russell

France, Pyrenees, Bolquère

“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”

Pyrenees, lake near Boullousses

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

William Blake

Pyrenees, stone man.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains . . . But it can put mountains where there are none.

Friederich Nietsche

France, Eyne

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

France, Bouriège, Bellelauze

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

Kahlil Gibran

France, Bouriège, distel

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

James Whittaker

France, Pyrenees

NEXT 8 DAYS I'M THERE, SO THERE WILL BE NO POST ON THE BLOG.

Boechout, potatoefield

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Douglas Adams

London, Trafalgarsquare

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Woody Allen

London, St. Martins in the fields.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.

Meridith Willson

London, Paparazzi gathering for the première of Transformers.

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

Robin Wright Penn

London, Piccadily Circus

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

John Steinbeck

Antwerp I do not rule Russia; ten thousand clerks do

Nicholas I

Mol, Sand Industry, Sibelco

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

French proverb

Mol, Lock 2

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Elisabeth Bowen

Mol, Kempische Golfclub

The harder you work, the luckier you get?

Mol, sand, Sibelco

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

Joseph Addison

Mol, Kristallijn

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lier, City hall

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustinus

Leuven, Ladeuseplein

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

Brendan Francis

Leuven, Ladeuse square

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

Galileo Galilei

Broechem, Belgium, Kabouters

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

Zandhoven, Belgium, Chicken

The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.

Belgium, E19 Machelen

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

William Faulkner

Warsaw, Nuovo Swiat

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Michel Foucoult

Warsaw, Centrum

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Eugene Ionesco

Meer

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Winston Churchill

Antwerp, cathedral

“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”

Thomas Carlyle

Antwerp, Steenplein

Every picture is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

free after Giotto di Bondone