Highland Children's Trust - A charitable trust set up in 1983 following the closure of a local children's home to help with the educational needs of young people.
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education 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 "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Education
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 Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom 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 only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Education Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Education
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "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) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Education They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Education
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Education Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "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 Education
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Education Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Education
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Education Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Education
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Education I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Education
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Education What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Education
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Education A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Education
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 A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Education A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Education
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Education 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 have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Education
