Forfar Dispatch - Online site of this local Forfar newspaper.
Forfar Infirmary - Listing visiting hours, overnight accommodation and other services provided by the hospital trust.
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Forfar "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Forfar
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Forfar "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Forfar
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 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Forfar Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Forfar
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Forfar But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Forfar
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Forfar "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Forfar
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Forfar "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Forfar
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Forfar The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Forfar
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Forfar "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Forfar
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Forfar Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Forfar
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live 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 blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Forfar A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Forfar
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Forfar "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Forfar
