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Christine Ferguson Stable of Advocates - Scotland - The Christine Ferguson Stable of Scottish Advocates, providing legal services for instructing professions and their clients, with profiles of practising advocates and details on how to instruct Scottish Counsel.
Faculty of Advocates - Website of the Scottish Bar providing information on the Faculty, its members and the services they provide, including up-to-date stable listings and contact details for Advocates Clerks and Stables.
What is an Advocate? - Explanatory guide to advocacy by the Faculty of Advocates.
Faculty Services Limited - Provides a range of facilities and services to assist with the administration of Advocates' practices.
The Advocates Library - Formally inaugurated in 1689, the library is widely regarded as the finest working law library in the British Isles.
Jonathan Mitchell QC - Information about the Scottish legal system, jurisdiction, and infolaw. Contact details.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn Advocates "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Advocates Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Advocates It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Advocates Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Advocates Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese Advocates Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Advocates "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Advocates It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "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 Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker 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 "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Advocates We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Advocates He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday Advocates By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Advocates When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous "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) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre Advocates It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Advocates With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Advocates "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Advocates A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Advocates If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Advocates Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan Advocates That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Advocates "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields Advocates Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder Advocates
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