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Highland Battles - A brief account of major battles in Scotland, listed in chronological order, from HighlanderWeb.
Historic Battle Sites in Scotland - Information on battle sites, clans and castles around Scotland from Highland Traveller.
Historic Scottish Battles - A list of all the major battles that shaped the Scottish nation. There is a small summary of the conflicts with links leading to other sites with a more comprehensive description.
The Massacre of Glencoe - "You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the McDonalds of Glencoe, and put all to the sword under seventy." The true story of a massacre still remembered today.
The Scot Wars - Covers civil wars in Scotland from 1638 to 1746. Battles, fortresses and palaces, monarchy and re-enactment.
Scots at War - Research and collate information and data sources to educate the public of all ages on the history.
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje Wars I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein Wars May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Wars Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Wars The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Wars "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) 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 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon Wars My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Wars I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Wars A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wars Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Wars Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Wars Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Wars 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 "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Wars "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Wars Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde Wars There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Wars Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Wars I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Wars 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 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Wars You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli Wars Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- 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, No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Wars Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Wars
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