About Scotland: The History of Edinburgh - A brief outline, with reference to the Celts and Romans, United Scotland, Medieval Edinburgh, Georgian, and present day. With a map.
History of Leith - History and past of the Leith area of Edinburgh. Includes many articles on Leith and its historic and bloody past.
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) History It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle History
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 History "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) History
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) History The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) History
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill History "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) History
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker History All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West History
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position 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 "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) History What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) History
"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) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado History Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday History
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard History If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken History
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo History "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller History
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. History I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And History
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich History Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock History
