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The University of St Andrews Museum and Information Centre,St.Andrews,Scotland - The University of St Andrews is a key contributor to one of The Gateway's primary features - a state-of-the-art museum and exhibition. These facilities have been designed to offer an intriguing experience of the history of the University and the remarkable impact it has made on the town, on Scottish history and on the academic world since its medieval beginnings.

Scottish Fisheries Museum - Situated in Anstruther,it tells the story of fishing in Scotland through the ages. Owns several full-size boats and an extensive archive of artifacts, documents and photographs.

SCOTTISH VINTAGE BUS MUSEUM - Home Page - The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum, located at Lathalmond by Dunfermline, Fife, is the acknowledged focal point of historic bus restoration and operation in Scotland. We are open to the public on Sundays, from Easter until September, when the site can be toured in a vintage bus

British Golf Museum - The British Golf Museum tells the fascinating story of British golf from the middle ages through to the present day, from the Open Championship through to the Alfred Dunhill Cup, Old Tom Morris to Mark O'Meara

Scotland's Secret Bunker - "Only taken off the Official Secrets list in 1993. Visit the Secret underground nuclear command bunker and discover the twilight world of the Government Cold War".

Bell Pettigrew Museum - Museum of Natural History at St Andrews University.

"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Museums "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Museums May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Museums I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Museums "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may "... 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) Museums Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Museums If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Museums "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Museums An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Museums Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Museums "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson Museums "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Museums When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Museums Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde Museums Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster Museums Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Museums "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer Museums "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos 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 I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Museums There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Museums Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Museums Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Museums
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