Gazetteer for Scotland - A huge database of information maintained by the University of Edinburgh, with details of towns, villages and sites throughout Scotland, together with biographies of famous people and histories of family names.
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Scotland I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Scotland
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Scotland Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Scotland
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Scotland "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Scotland
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Scotland "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Scotland
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Scotland Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Scotland
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Scotland "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Scotland
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Scotland LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Scotland
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Scotland 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Scotland
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Scotland Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Scotland
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Scotland "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Scotland
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Scotland "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) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Scotland
