Irvine, Ayrshire - History and details including the local Burns club and the Incorporated Trades.
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Travel and Tourism I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. 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 "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Travel and Tourism When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Travel and Tourism
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Travel and Tourism Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Travel and Tourism
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Travel and Tourism
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Travel and Tourism
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Travel and Tourism The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Travel and Tourism
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Travel and Tourism
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Travel and Tourism I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Travel and Tourism The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Travel and Tourism
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Travel and Tourism
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Travel and Tourism "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) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "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) Travel and Tourism
