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Midlothian (GEN-UKI) - Genealogical information about Midlothian.
Midlothian Online - A community website containing history, email, links and information.
51st Bonnyrigg Boys Brigade - Profile of each section including meeting times and location. Also staff, history, awards and camps.
Pentland Hills Icelandics - The largest herd of icelandic horses in Britain. Icelandic horses for sale, and offer treks into the countryside. All the horses are fully pedigreed, and are either Scottish bred or Icelandic imports. Based in Penicuik.
Rosewell-Online - Community site. The village of Rosewell in Midlothian dates back to the mid-eighteenth century, evolving out mining. Since then has developed into thriving community - visit our guestbook and leave a message.
Midlothiann Council - Council information and services pages. In addition lists news, events, links, maps and contact information
Midlothian SNP - Official website for the Midlothian branch of the Scottish National Party.
CyBIL - A capacity building project providing free training and grants to local community groups and voluntary organisations in the locality.
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Midlothian The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Midlothian Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "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) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Midlothian 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 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. -- Crowf There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Midlothian Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Midlothian Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller 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 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Midlothian There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Midlothian I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Midlothian Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert Midlothian A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Midlothian "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor Midlothian "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Midlothian 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 Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Midlothian It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Midlothian Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde 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 Midlothian We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa 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 take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Midlothian Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Midlothian 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 Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Midlothian Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Midlothian The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Midlothian Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Midlothian By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln Midlothian
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