Architecture of Edinburgh - An illustrated introduction from Archiseek to some of the architectural highlights of Edinburgh.
The Craigentinny Marbles - Illustrated history and description by G.K. Gillon of an unique Edinburgh mausoleum designed by David Rhind and carved by Victorian sculptor Alfred Gatley.
Edinburgh Architectural Association - News and information on architectural events and a directory of architects' practices in the Edinburgh area.
Edinburgh New Town - Article by Jane Boyd-Brent for About Scotland on the burst of Neo-Classical architecture in Edinburgh in the 18th century and its architects, including Robert Adam. Photographs and map.
Mansfield Traquair Trust - Aims to conserve Pheobe Anna Traquair's decorative mural scheme in the former Catholic Apostolic Church in Edinburgh. Includes a history and plan of the building and illustrated description of the murals.
Robert Adam's Vision of Edinburgh - An interactive multimedia catalog by Cadking Design of existing and unbuilt designs by Robert Adam. Essays, photographs, drawings, 3D computer images and bibliography.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Architecture Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Architecture
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Architecture Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Architecture
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Architecture Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Architecture
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting 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 "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Architecture When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Architecture
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Architecture I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Architecture
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Architecture Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Architecture
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Architecture What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Architecture
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Architecture Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Think off-center." (George Carlin) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Architecture Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Architecture
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Architecture "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) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Architecture
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac 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 Architecture "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Architecture
