The Scottish Australian Heritage Council Inc - is an organisation for all Scottish descendents. Why not join today and gain access to many organisations and Clans. There are many events and outings with Scottish fun , food , music & dance. Re-discover and enjoy your Scottish Heritage.
Scots in Poland - Discussion about the Scots who migrated to Poland over the centuries.
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Scots Abroad People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Scots Abroad
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Scots Abroad "Think off-center." (George Carlin) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Scots Abroad
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Scots Abroad "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Scots Abroad
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Scots Abroad Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Scots Abroad
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Scots Abroad Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Scots Abroad
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Scots Abroad "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Scots Abroad
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Scots Abroad Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Scots Abroad
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Scots Abroad The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Scots Abroad
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Scots Abroad "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Scots Abroad
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Scots Abroad There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Scots Abroad
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Scots Abroad "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Scots Abroad
