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Queen James - Essay recounting the rumours of James' homosexuality.
James I - Brief account of James' life including a passage from Macaulay's History of England.
James I - Britannia's comprehensive guide to the history of England, Wales and Scotland.
King James I of England - Based on the life and works of King James I of England. Includes a biography, e-texts, essays, and web resources.
James VI - Scottish history of James VI of Scotland who also ruled England as James I.
King James I of England (VI of Scotland) - Comprehensive information including biography, facts, genealogy, personal writings, and details about assasination attempts.
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W James I and VI I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein James I and VI The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) James I and VI For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa James I and VI If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne James I and VI The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr 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 "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) James I and VI ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen 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 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood James I and VI The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon James I and VI Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) James I and VI It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost James I and VI I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic James I and VI Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) James I and VI "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken James I and VI A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh James I and VI Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx James I and VI The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) James I and VI "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman James I and VI Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen James I and VI It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) James I and VI If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) James I and VI Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e James I and VI If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner James I and VI
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