Thirlestane Castle Horse Trials - International championship eventing in the Scottish Borders. Listing 2001 results and course information; trials history, trade-stands and advertising and venue details.
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see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- Benjamin Franklin Equestrian
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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-- Will Rogers Equestrian
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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
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-- Dale Carnegie Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Equestrian
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
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-- Abraham Lincoln He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Equestrian
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) then the world 's mine oyster
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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.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Equestrian
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
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I worship the quicksand he walks in.
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does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Equestrian
