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James II and VII Links

James II - Short article on James' life, including a contemporary picture.
The Jacobite Heritage - The story of James II and VII, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, and his Jacobite heirs to the present day.
James II and VII - Biographical information about James II and VII, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland.
James III and VIII - Biographical information about James III and VIII, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, concentrating on his hereditary rights to the Jacobite thrones of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland.
I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver James II and VII "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard James II and VII 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 "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman James II and VII "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead James II and VII A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" James II and VII "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies James II and VII Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer "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.) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman James II and VII My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) James II and VII "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein James II and VII Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec James II and VII "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.) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) James II and VII To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell James II and VII Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi James II and VII Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev James II and VII Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers James II and VII "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) James II and VII He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm "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 James II and VII Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain James II and VII "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." James II and VII You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) James II and VII They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi 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 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno James II and VII "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 James II and VII
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