• Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    Abraham Lincoln
  • My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

    Cary Grant
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

    E. B. White
  • I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

    e. e. cummings
  • What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

    — Saint Augustine
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

    Mark Twain
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

    Henry David Thoreau
  • If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

    John Cardinal
  • In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

    — Anonymous
  • Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

    John Adams
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

    Abraham Lincoln
  • History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

    — ?Santayana?
  • What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

    — Last of the Summer Wine
  • Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

    — Terry Pratchett
  • I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

    — Terry Pratchett
  • .. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

    — Petronius (210 BC)
  • The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

    — Proust
  • You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

    William J. H. Boetcker
  • Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

    — Lorna 1992
  • No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

    — George Bernard Shaw
  • A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

    — Anon
  • Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

    — Anon
  • The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

    — Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
Swinton, Berwickshire (marr. 1792)
One of two contemporary John FAIRBAIRNs dying 1849 and buried Swinton.
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  • John0 Fairbairn (m. Alice AINSLIE) (circa 1771 - Jan 1849)
    • Alice Ainslie (circa 1774 - Jan 1849)
      • Isabella1 Fairbairn (circa 1793 - Jul 1869)
      • Alexandria1 Fairbairn (circa Jun 1795 - Sep 1796)
      • James1 Fairbairn (circa 1799 - Jul 1878)
        • Christian Scott (circa 1807 - say 1888)
          • Elizabeth2 Fairbairn (circa May 1830 - Mar 1881)
            • Simon Crammond (circa 1829 - )
            • Robert Brown
          • John2 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1833 - aft. 1851)
          • Alison2 Fairbairn (Sep 1835 - 1903)
            • Joseph McIntyre (bef. 1852 - )
          • George2 Fairbairn (circa Aug 1838 - aft. 1901)
            • Catherine Lamb (circa 1838 - aft. 1901)
              • James3 Fairbairn (bet. Mar 1867 - Jun 1867 - 1916)
                • Maggie L. Paterson (circa 1867 - aft. 1901)
                  • Walter P.4 Fairbairn (circa 1890 - Dec 1930)
                    • Annie Reid (circa 1902 - 1975)
                  • James4 Fairbairn (circa 1895 - 1950)
                    • Julia Murdoch (circa 1893 - 1967)
                  • Robert4 Fairbairn (circa 1899 - aft. 1927)
                    • Margaret T. Henderson (circa 1906 - )
          • Isabella2 Fairbairn (circa 1844 - aft. 1901)
            • James Mabon (circa 1850 - aft. 1901)
      • Henry1 Fairbairn (circa 1802 - Jun 1875)
        • Elizabeth Gibson (circa 1801 - Jan 1867)
          • Alison2 Fairbairn (Feb 1831 - Apr 1875)
            • Robert Spence (circa 1829 - )
          • Mary2 Fairbairn (circa 1833 - Dec 1916)
          • John2 Fairbairn (circa 1835 - Mar 1902)
            • Margaret Simpson (circa 1831 - bef. 1881)
              • William3 Fairbairn (Oct 1857 - Apr 1940)
              • James3 Fairbairn (Apr 1866 - aft. 1901)
                • Elizabeth Bolton (circa 1860 - aft. 1901)
                  • John4 Fairbairn (Apr 1887 - Aug 1966)
                    • Margaret I. N. Proudlock (say 1900 - bef. 1966)
                  • Margaret4 Fairbairn (circa 1892 - aft. 1901)
                  • Alice4 Fairbairn (circa 1894 - aft. 1901)
                  • Elizabeth4 Fairbairn (circa Feb 1901 - aft. 1901)
                  • W4 Fairbairn (say 1903 - aft. 1966)
          • Isabella2 Fairbairn (circa 1840 - Feb 1896)
            • James L. Waldie (circa 1830 - Sep 1911)
              • Elizabeth3 Waldie (Jan 1866 - )
              • Agnes3 Waldie (May 1871 - )
          • Elizabeth2 Fairbairn (circa 1841 - aft. 1881)
      • Alison1 Fairbairn (Nov 1807 - )
      • Janet1 Fairbairn (circa 1811 - Jul 1856)
      • Alexander1 Fairbairn (circa 1816 - Apr 1887)
        • Julian Wilson (circa 1823 - aft. 1887)
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