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mairead · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:51 am Post subject:

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. .....Samuel Johnson

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I fear not hell, nor English strife,
For Scotland, I will give my life

Blackadder · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:01 am Post subject:

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Aesop
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mairead · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:25 am Post subject:

Language is the dress of thoughts....Samuel Johnston
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I fear not hell, nor English strife,
For Scotland, I will give my life

Blackadder · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:22 am Post subject:

"Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you."

Woody Allen
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mairead · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:07 am Post subject:

My argument is that war makes rattling good history, but Peace is poor reading........ Thomas Hardy
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I fear not hell, nor English strife,
For Scotland, I will give my life

Blackadder · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:10 am Post subject:

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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mairead · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:40 am Post subject:

Christianity is part of the common law of England....Sir Mathew Hale
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I fear not hell, nor English strife,
For Scotland, I will give my life

Blackadder · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:57 am Post subject:

"Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo."

Jean Cocteau.
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Laird of Treverlen

mairead · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:29 am Post subject:

Public Schools are the nurseries for all vice and immorality...Henry Fielding.
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I fear not hell, nor English strife,
For Scotland, I will give my life

Babygael · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject:

" Never explain: Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway"

Elbert Hubbard

Babygael · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject:

" Never explain: Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway"

Elbert Hubbard

Blackadder · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject:

I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

Akeem Olajuwon
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mairead · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:23 am Post subject:

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.....Paul Gaugin
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I fear not hell, nor English strife,
For Scotland, I will give my life

Blackadder · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:32 am Post subject:

"There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world."

Jean Baudrillard.
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Blackadder · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 4:40 pm Post subject:

"Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Scottish."

(adapted frpm ) Ted Whitehead.
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mairead · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:06 am Post subject:

He's an old bore, even the grave yawns for him....Herbert Beerbolm
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I fear not hell, nor English strife,
For Scotland, I will give my life

Blackadder · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:31 am Post subject:

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain
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mairead · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:53 am Post subject:

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair....Samuel Johnston
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I fear not hell, nor English strife,
For Scotland, I will give my life

Blackadder · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:58 am Post subject:

Bugger!!!

General Custer (on finding himself the last man standing in the middle of thousands of vengeful American Natives)
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mairead · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:32 am Post subject:

Where the law ends, Tyranny begins....William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

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I fear not hell, nor English strife,
For Scotland, I will give my life