Dhanakosa Buddhist Retreat Centre - Introductory meditation and Buddhism retreats by the shores of Loch Voil. Location, photographs and retreat schedule.
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Buddhism An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Buddhism
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Buddhism "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Buddhism
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Buddhism The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Buddhism
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Buddhism The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Buddhism
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Buddhism 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 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Buddhism
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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) Buddhism "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Buddhism
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Buddhism Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Buddhism
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Buddhism Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem 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 Buddhism
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Buddhism For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Buddhism
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Buddhism The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Buddhism
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana 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 To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Buddhism If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Buddhism
