The Jacobite Heritage - The story of the Jacobite kings and their heirs to the present day. The monarchy as it would have been without the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
History of the Monarchy: Kings and Queens of Scotland to 1603 - Introduction to the history of the Scottish Crown from the early Scottish monarchs through to Malcolm III, the Bruces, the Stewarts and the Jacobite Claimants, from the official site of the British monarchy.
Kingdom of Scotland - Tables and facts on all of Scotland's kings and queens.
Scotland Royal Genealogy - Includes a mailing list, query board, discussion forum, maps and links to various clans and resources.
Scottish Monarchs - A table listing Scotland's rulers from 1034 to 1625.
Scotland's Kings and Queens - Lists information on all the Scottish monarchs from Kenneth MacAlpin to James VI.
The Scottish Monarchy - Lists the kings from 841 to 1034, with short story about each king.
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Monarchy "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Monarchy
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Monarchy Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Monarchy
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Monarchy Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Monarchy
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Monarchy There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Monarchy
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Monarchy "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Monarchy
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Monarchy Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Monarchy
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Monarchy You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Monarchy
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Monarchy Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Monarchy
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "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 "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Monarchy Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Monarchy
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Monarchy "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "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 Monarchy
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) 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 Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Monarchy Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Monarchy
