Glasgow Directory of 1787 - Lists of merchants, manufacturers and traders in 1787. The introduction features historical anecdotes and a who's-who of Glasgow at that time.
A peek at North East Glasgow - Nostalgic look at Germiston, Garngad, Roystonhill, Townhead, Springburn and Blackhill - includes and invites visitors' contributions.
Glasgow in the 1820's - Provides a glimpse of what life was like and includes several pictures.
Allan and Ferguson's Views in Glasgow - Online exhibition from the University of Glasgow that features rare artwork depicting the buildings and landmarks of early nineteenth century Glasgow, many of which have now been demolished.
Glasgow History of Aligned Sites - An archaeolgy site, detailing the pattern of prehistoric sites of interest in and around the Glasgow area.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward History A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein History
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye History Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm History
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN History A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous History
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai History Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells History
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez My other wife is beautiful. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson History Man and wife make one fool. 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. History
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer History There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) History
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) History "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein History
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 We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham History "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 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson 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 History
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine History I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board History
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson History "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. History
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller History "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) History
