Midlothian Camera Club - Meets in Lasswade in its own premises. Shows location, programme, membership benefits and gallery of photographs.
Scottish Mining Museum - Museum is split over two sites. Both on former coalmines-sites. On display Steam engines, underground gallery, a coalface, a colliery workshop and the coalcutting machines.
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Arts and Entertainment
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Arts and Entertainment Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Arts and Entertainment
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Arts and Entertainment If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Arts and Entertainment
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "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) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Arts and Entertainment There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Arts and Entertainment
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Arts and Entertainment "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Arts and Entertainment
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler 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 think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "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) Arts and Entertainment Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Arts and Entertainment
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Arts and Entertainment If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Arts and Entertainment
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Arts and Entertainment Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Arts and Entertainment
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Arts and Entertainment "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment
