The Gordon Highlanders - The official home pages of the Gordon Highlanders regiment 1794 - 1994.
Age Concern Aberdeen - Age Concern advice and counselling service for the elderly, their family and friends.
Voluntary Service Aberdeen - Charitable organization catering for older people, those with disabilities, families and children in poverty. Information and contact addresses included.
Chrysanthemums in Aberdeen - Providing information on the growing of chrysanthemums for exhibition. Includes aspects from propagation to showing putting blooms.
Aberdeen Wedding Resources - Resource for getting married. Contains related links including photographers, Jewellers and Car Hire.
Aberdeen Friends of the Earth - Environmental campaigning organisation, Information on waste, community, transport and fisheries.
Dog Action Working Group - Information on dog rescue and re-homing. Includes details and photographs of animals currently looking for homes.
Grampian Pre-Retirement Council - Formed to assist people nearing retirement to plan and prepare for one of the greatest and most significant life changes. Lists courses and contact details.
UNISON - Aberdeen City - Trade union representing local government, higher education, police and voluntary sector workers in Aberdeen. Includes policy database, local news and campaigns.
Save Camphill Campaign - A campaign to avert a new road threat to a community of special needs adults and children.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Society and Culture Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
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-- Anonymous I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Society and Culture
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Society and Culture "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Society and Culture
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Society and Culture If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Society and Culture
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Society and Culture
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Society and Culture Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Society and Culture The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Society and Culture
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Society and Culture "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
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-- Rita Rudner "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Society and Culture
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Society and Culture "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
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-- Colin Wilson Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Society and Culture
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Society and Culture Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
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