Families First - A registered charitable company providing a range of support for families in St Andrews and surrounding villages.
Matrix Youth Fellowship - St Andrews Baptist Church youth page. Contains a chat facility, details of upcoming events and useful links.
St Andrews Baptist Church - Contains the times of services, news, photographs, contact information and local links. Also shows details of associated groups and their activities.
The Byre Theatre - Contains information about current and future productions as well as the role of the theatre within the local community.
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Society and Culture "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Society and Culture Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Society and Culture Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous 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." ( In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Society and Culture I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Society and Culture
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Society and Culture Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Society and Culture
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "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-) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Society and Culture "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Society and Culture My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Society and Culture
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "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 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Society and Culture
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 The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Society and Culture "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Society and Culture
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Society and Culture "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
