Van Der Wel

Famous quotes containing the words van, der and/or wel:

“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences.... It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“Under the lindens on the heather,
There was our double resting-place.”
—Walther Von Der Vogelweide (1170?–1230?)

“Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be,
That may bothe werke wel and hastily.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)