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Dale House - Country house hotel in the middle the Caithness countryside. Conference facilities.
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Halkirk Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Halkirk
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Halkirk The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Halkirk
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Halkirk If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Halkirk
"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-) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Halkirk The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Halkirk
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Halkirk The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Halkirk
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Halkirk "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Halkirk
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson 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 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Halkirk Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long 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 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 Halkirk "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Halkirk
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Halkirk Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Halkirk
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Halkirk "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Halkirk
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Halkirk You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Halkirk
