St Boswells Curling Club - Site includes syllabus and diary dates, competition results, cup holders, rinks, club rules and committee members. Scottish Borders.
Haddo House Curling Club - Details about the club and its venues, fixtures, teams and tables. Photo gallery. Near Aberdeen, Scotland.
Scotsman Hot Topics: Curling - Ongoing coverage of news, analysis and comment on the sport from its original home.
Lanarkshire Young Curlers - Some areas of this site are restricted to members only. Members can view scores, check competitions and use the online play dates calculator. Hamilton, Scotland.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Curling A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Curling
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Curling A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Curling Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Curling
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Curling Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Curling
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Curling Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Curling
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Curling You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Curling
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Curling Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Curling
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Curling Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Curling
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Curling There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Curling
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Curling Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Curling
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Curling Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard 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 Curling
