Dunedin Dancers : Welcome - Scottish country dance group. Features information about the dance team and its shows.
Edinburgh Latin/Hispanic Music and Dance Guide - Informal guide to places to dance to Latin rhythms from salsa through samba to tango, and hear and play Afro-Latin, South American and Hispanic music in the Edinburgh Area.
Hilary Thacker - Professional Middle Eastern style dancer based in Scotland but performs internationally. On line bazaar, classes and workshops.
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society - Details of the Edinburgh branch of this society which offers opportunities to learn and practise the country dances of Scotland.
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 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "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 Dance Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. 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 As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Dance
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Dance The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Dance
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dance In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Dance
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone 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 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Dance At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Dance
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale 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 They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Dance 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 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Dance
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Dance In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Dance
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) 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. Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Dance It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Dance
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Dance Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Dance
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Dance "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Dance
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Dance Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Dance
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying 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 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Dance Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Dance
