Scrimgeour Clan - Includes information for the Scrymgeour, Scrymiger, Scrimger and Glaster names. Also information on Dudhope and Fincharn Castles, and Kilneuair Church.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Scrimgeour "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Scrimgeour
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Scrimgeour We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Scrimgeour
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Scrimgeour "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Scrimgeour
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Scrimgeour We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Scrimgeour
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Scrimgeour Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Scrimgeour
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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, Scrimgeour Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Scrimgeour
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Scrimgeour It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Scrimgeour
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Scrimgeour When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Scrimgeour
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Scrimgeour "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Scrimgeour
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Scrimgeour "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal 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 Scrimgeour
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Scrimgeour "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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