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  • 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
Some descendants of John & Jessie (JOHNSTON) FAIRBAIRN.
Lived Greenlaw, descendants world-wide
James Fairbairn
Elizabeth Purves
Magdalen Fairbairn
Elizabeth Fairbairn
James Fairbairn
Margaret Fairbairn
John Fairbairn
Peter Mack
Betty Mack
Isabel Mack
Magdalene Mack
Helen Mack
Margaret Mack
Andrew Mack
May Mack
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Fairbairn
James Fairbairn
Peter Purves
William Purves
James Purves
Charles Purves
John Purves
Peter Purves
Jessie Johnston
James Fairbairn
Rev Patrick Fairbairn DD
John Fairbairn
Margaret Fairbairn
George Fairbairn
Elizabeth Bonar
Peter C. Purves
Annie H. Plummer
Annie Fairbairn
John Fairbairn
Margaret Pitcairn
John Fairbairn
Alexander Fairbairn
Mary Playfair
Patrick P. Fairbairn
Jane J. Fairbairn
Thomas P. Fairbairn
Marian Fairbairn
Frances E. Turnbull
Mary Wilson
John Fairbairn
Agnes C. Turnbull
Virginia C. Armytage
George Fairbairn
James Fairbairn
Charles Fairbairn
Thomas Fairbairn
Stephen Fairbairn
Jessie M. Fairbairn
Frederick W. Fairbairn OBE
Ferdinand F. Armytage
Mary A. Houghton
Patrick Fairbairn
John H. Fairbairn
Margaret P. Fairbairn
Jane M. McTaggart
Fanny Fairbairn
Mary Fairbairn
Patrick Fairbairn
Janie Fairbairn
John Fairbairn
Helen Fairbairn
Thomas Fairbairn
Olivia Hohenkerk
Alec Fairbairn
Harold Fairbairn
Norman G. Fairbairn
Jessie K. Prell
George Fairbairn
Alison M. Fairbairn
Clive P. Fairbairn
Jane Smith
Elizabeth Osborne
Charles O. Fairbairn
James V. Fairbairn
Margaret L. Simpson
George E. Fairbairn
Sydney G. Fairbairn
Stephen I. Fairbairn
Ellen Sharwood
James W. M. Lumsden
John S. Braithwaite
Rhoda J. McLeod
Capt Gordon A. Fairbairn
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