Scottish Liberal Democrats - The Scottish state party of the federal Liberal Democrats. Includes details of all the Local Parties in Scotland, and all the Liberal Democrat Members of the Scottish Parliament.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Liberal Democrats Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Liberal Democrats
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Liberal Democrats Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Liberal Democrats
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay 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 "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Liberal Democrats Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Liberal Democrats
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin 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 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Liberal Democrats "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Liberal Democrats
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Liberal Democrats "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) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Liberal Democrats
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Liberal Democrats "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Liberal Democrats
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Liberal Democrats One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Liberal Democrats
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume 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 Liberal Democrats A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Liberal Democrats
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Liberal Democrats blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Liberal Democrats
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 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Liberal Democrats "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Liberal Democrats
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Liberal Democrats Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Liberal Democrats
