Lyntoun Private Hire - Specialising in golfing, fishing and walking parties. Includes company and contact information.
Don Prentice Coaches - Executive and Luxury coach hire for all occasions, based at Haddington near Edinburgh.
The Bus Garage - Contains photographs and information about the North Berwick Bus Garage. It also has photographs of buses from all over the UK from events and museums the author has visited.
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Transport Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Transport
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) 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 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Transport As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Transport
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis 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 Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Transport "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Transport
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Transport "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Transport
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Transport
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Transport Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Transport
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Transport If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Transport
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Transport
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Transport The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Transport
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Transport Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "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 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Transport
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Transport When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Transport
