Legends - Selchies - Collection of links pertaining to the seal-folk of Scotland and Ireland, variously called selchies, selkies, silkies, or roanes.
Scottish Traditional Tales - Introduction to Scottish tales and storytelling, with bibliography, and sample tales.
The Tam Lin Pages - Dedicated to the study of the old Scottish ballad of Tam Lin, who is rescued from the fairies by a mortal woman.
The Hebridean Folklore Project - Run by volunteers to keep Scottish folklore alive and accessible, with the aim of relating Scottish culture around the world. Includes tales and photos.
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Folklore "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Folklore
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Folklore "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Folklore
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 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 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Folklore You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Folklore
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Folklore "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Folklore
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Folklore There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Folklore
"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 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Folklore Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Folklore
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Folklore 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 "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Folklore
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Folklore "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "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) Folklore
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Folklore Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Folklore
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller 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 In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Folklore If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Folklore
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Folklore When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Folklore
