Holywood - The history and archaeology of Holywood in Nithsdale, Dumfriesshire, South-West Scotland.
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Holywood The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Holywood
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Holywood To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Holywood
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Holywood In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Holywood
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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 Holywood I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Holywood
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Holywood "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Holywood
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. 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 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Holywood Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Holywood
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Holywood "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Holywood
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Holywood Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous 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 Holywood
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Holywood Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Holywood
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres 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. Holywood "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Holywood
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Holywood The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Holywood
