Old Fife Sayings

#1. War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

Seneca The Younger

#2. Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient.

Fred Hoyle

#3. Why must love always be accompanied
sooner or later
by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.

Edward Abbey

#4. I just hate going to the gym, unless I need to do cardio once in a while. I think gymming makes you stiff and takes your aura away.

Esha Gupta

#5. Anytime "mushed" accurately describes your architecture, you likely have a problem.

Robert Nystrom

#6. A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

Abraham Polonsky

#7. 'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.

John Burnside

#8. You're planning on being disappointed, you'd be disappointed if you weren't disappointed, your whole world view depends on men disappointing you. Well, that's just cowardly.

Jennifer Crusie

#9. Last summer was probably the biggest disappointment of my career, but now I have something bad with which to balance the good. I will no longer take anything for granted.

Brian O'Driscoll

#10. I write best when "I" am not writing.

Girish Kohli

#11. When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks.

John Burnside

#12. His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]

Heather O'Neill

#13. Story, it turns out, is the assassin of despair.

Robin Cody

#14. Creativity is a gift to the creator, not just a gift to the audience).

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

Evan Esar

#16. Please don't stop," said Dominic. "Watching you two interact is seriously fascinating. "When Ryan grunted, Dominic asked Makenna, "What did he say?"
"He called you an asshole."
Dominic feigned hurt. "Dude, that was mean.

Suzanne Wright

#17. We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

Sheri L. Dew

#18. That's what you men are always doing; it's so barbarously naive. You feel one of your loose desires for some woman, and because you desire her strongly you immediately accuse her of luring you on, of deliberately provoking and inviting the desire.

Aldous Huxley