Malcolm Canmore - Examines the life of Malcolm III, king of Scotland.
House of Canmore - Summary of the life of Malcolm III and his descendents who ruled Scotland from 1058 to 1290.
Saint Margaret, Queen of Scotland (1045-1093) - Biography of Saint Margaret, Queen of Scotland. Wife of King Malcolm III of Scotland, Margaret helped to civilize and refine both her husband and her adopted country. She devoted time and money to works of charity, assisting the poor, the aged, orphans, and the sick.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "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) Malcolm III "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Malcolm III
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Malcolm III Man and wife make one fool. Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Malcolm III
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Malcolm III "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Malcolm III
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Malcolm III I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Malcolm III
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Malcolm III Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Malcolm III
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Malcolm III People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Malcolm III
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Malcolm III "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Malcolm III
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Malcolm III If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Malcolm III
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Malcolm III 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 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Malcolm III
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Malcolm III Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Malcolm III
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Malcolm III He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Malcolm III
