The Scottish United Armed Services Museum - Holds Scotland's national collections for the armed services. The Museum collects material of all kinds relating to Scottish units and individuals who have served in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force. It also covers the activities of the armed services in Scotland.
John Knox House Museum - Devoted to John Knox, founder of the Presbyterian Church. Find out about the life and times of Scotland's greatest religious reformer.
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Museums We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Museums
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Museums Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Museums
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Museums "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 Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Museums
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen 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 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Museums When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Museums Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Museums
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 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Museums "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Museums
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Museums To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Museums
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Museums blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Museums
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Museums 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 "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Museums Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Museums
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 "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Museums The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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, Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Museums
