Edinburgh City Council - Based in Scotland's capital city, the Council provides a range of public services to over 444,000 citizens and promotes the city worldwide.
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Government "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Government The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Government
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. 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 A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Government "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Government
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Government To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Government
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Government 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 "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Government
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Government "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Government
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Government Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Government
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Government "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Government
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Government There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Government
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Government "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Government
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Government How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Government
