BEW (SCT)
Fairbairn:  
CAI (SCT)
Fairbairn:  
Ednam (ROX, SCT)
Fairbairn:  
ELN (SCT)
Fairbairn:  
FAIRBAIRN, Fairbairn
(?)
Archibald   (say 1760 - bet. 1800 - 1841)
James   (say 1760 - aft. 1802)
James   (circa Jan 1765 - bet. 1810 - 1841)
James   (circa 1766 - )
James   (say 1795 - bet. 1827 - 1837)
John   (1714 - 1796)
John   (circa 1772 - Jul 1824)
John   (circa Mar 1800 - Jul 1872)
Robert   (circa Dec 1751 - Nov 1849)
Robert   (say 1784 - bet. 1824 - 1844)
Robert   (Jun 1841 - Dec 1922)
Thomas   (circa 1790 - Oct 1854)
Trotter   (circa 1774 - 1856)
William   (circa Dec 1825 - Apr 1850)
Fairbairne
Fairbairn:  
LND (ENG)
Fairbairn:  
MLN (SCT)
Fairbairn:  
Newton
Betty   (circa 1729 - Nov 1784)
OKI (SCT)
Fairbairn:  
ROX (SCT)
Fairbairn:  
SCT
Fairbairn:
 
  • 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"