The Whithorn Trust - Established to explore the archaeology and history of the area, and to examine its role in the evolution of Christianity in Scotland. Includes educational resources, lecture series, and information for pilgrims.
Pend Books - General book store, with a focus on Scottish titles. Includes contact information.
Document Records - Catalogue for vintage blues, gospel, spirituals, jazz and country music.
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous My other wife is beautiful. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Whithorn He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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 Whithorn
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Whithorn "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Whithorn
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Whithorn Man and wife make one fool. Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Whithorn
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Whithorn The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Whithorn
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Whithorn "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Whithorn
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) 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 Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Whithorn It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Whithorn
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Whithorn Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Whithorn
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Whithorn A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Whithorn
"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 "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Whithorn We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Whithorn
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "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) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Whithorn The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Whithorn
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Whithorn Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Whithorn
