The Jacobite Heritage - The story of the Jacobite kings and their heirs to the present day. The monarchy as it would have been without the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
House of Stuart - Background on the ruling house with links.
The Jacobite Kings and Their Heirs - Biographical information about James II and VII and his Jacobite heirs to the thrones of England, Scotland, France and Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present.
Scottish History by the Royal Stuarts - Scottish History with a touch of humor. Highlights from Scottish History with a focus on the Stuart (Stewart) Monarchs.
The Stewart Society - Established 1899 inviting membership and appreciation of Stewart people, places, things, events and heraldry, including Royal Lineage, back to 12th Century.
Bonnie Prince Charlie - How Flora MacDonald saved the life of Charles Edward Stuart, called "Bonnie Prince Charlie."
Jacobite Rebellion - In this three part series, writer Brian Workman examines the origins of the Jacobite Rebellion and its impact on Scottish society and history.
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-- Simeon Strunsky He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
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-- Virginia Woolf Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Stuart I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
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--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Stuart
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Stuart "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Stuart
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche Stuart "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Stuart
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-- Anon. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
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-- Margaret Fairless Barber Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Stuart "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Stuart
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- Friedrich Nietzsche Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stuart I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stuart
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Stuart Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington 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. Stuart "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Stuart
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Stuart Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Stuart
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Stuart If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
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-- Marcus Aurelius Stuart
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-- Stanislaw J. Lec Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Stuart 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 You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Stuart
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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those tiny toil Stuart The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Stuart
