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Almond House - Bed and breakfast and self catering in the Corstorphine area. Online booking enquiries, location maps and details on facilities available.
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-- Mae West "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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-- George Bernard Shaw The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Accommodation
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant 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
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-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
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By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
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-- Virginia Woolf Accommodation In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Accommodation "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
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-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Accommodation
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Accommodation "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Accommodation
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Accommodation "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Accommodation
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
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Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Accommodation
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-- Diane Ackerman 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.
-- Crowf The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Accommodation Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) 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 Accommodation
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "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 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Accommodation I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Accommodation
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Accommodation "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Accommodation
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Accommodation Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
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