Members of the Scottish Parliament - Scottish MPs listed by constituency. Includes email address, margin elected by, party and web links.
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs "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) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs
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-- Brendan Hills We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs
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 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Members of the Scottish Parliament - MSPs
