Count of Holland/the County of Holland and West Frisia 1582-1795

Famous quotes containing the words count, holland, county and/or west:

    The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    The tragedy of Northern Ireland is that it is now a society in which the dead console the living.
    —Jack Holland (b. 1947)

    I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
    Berkeley Breathed (b. 1957)

    Where there’s more of singing and less of sighing,
    Where there’s more of giving and less of buying,
    And a man makes friends without half trying
    That’s where the West begins.
    Arthur Chapman (1873–1935)