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The Annals of Dunfermline - The complete text from one of two 19th century books, written by Dr Ebenezer Henderson, detailing the history of two areas in Fife, from earliest time to the 19thcentury.
The Burntisland Pages - Includes historical items, many photographs, and web links to various other sites related to Burntisland.
Kemback - A history of the village.
Fife Pits and Memorial Book - A study of coal mining with pit location maps, history of coal, school projects, disasters, genealogy uses, personal accounts, guest book and current events.
Kincardine-on-Forth Local History Group - Dedicated to exploring the history of Kincardine as well as other more general aspects of both local and global history.
About Dalgety Bay - A quick tour of Dalgety Bay and its 800 year history, plus a short guide to the Owenson family history.
Methil Heritage - History and heritage of the Levenmouth area of Fife.
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) History If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) History "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway History Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) History 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. -- Crow He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) History Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller History Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower History I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach History "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) 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 That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. History "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell History Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein History If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran History My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal History Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller History "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm History Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) History "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title 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 "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. History "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes History Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus History Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) 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 History "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) History "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz History
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