Fife Family History Society - Joins together people with a common interest, the research of their families of a bygone era, who lived and worked in Fife.
Fife ScotlandGenWeb - Contains information about surnames, towns, local links, family web pages, mailing lists and archives.
Kingdom of Fife Surnames List - Directory comprising name submissions from genealogists with specific interests in the county of Fife, Scotland.
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Genealogy A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Genealogy
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Genealogy blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Genealogy
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Genealogy A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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 Genealogy
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Genealogy A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Genealogy
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Genealogy We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Genealogy
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Genealogy The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Genealogy
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Genealogy Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Genealogy
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Genealogy "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Genealogy
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Genealogy "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Genealogy
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Genealogy Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Genealogy
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Genealogy "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 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genealogy
