Cairngorm Landscapes - Images and analysis of preglacial, glacial and periglacial landforms in the Cairngorm Mountains.
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Cairngorms The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Cairngorms
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Cairngorms "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Cairngorms
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cairngorms Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Cairngorms
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Cairngorms "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Cairngorms
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Cairngorms It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Cairngorms
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Cairngorms "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) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Cairngorms
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Cairngorms In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Cairngorms
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Cairngorms "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Cairngorms
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Cairngorms Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Cairngorms
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law 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 "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Cairngorms "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cairngorms
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Cairngorms No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Cairngorms
