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Aberdeenshire - Council homepage. Includes information about education, culture, tourism and business.
Gateway to Aberdeenshire - Offers information on business development and community initiatives in the locality.
Aberdeenshire Towns Partnership - Promotes sustainable development through community planning and an Aberdeenshire Towns Action Programme. Towns currently involved are Ellon, Fraserburgh, Inverurie, Peterhead and Stonehaven.
Banffshire.net - Local portal for the area centered around Banff, in the northernmost part of Aberdeenshire.
Grampian Police - The region's law enforcement agency.
Deskford and District Community - Information about this small rural community in Banffshire, with information about community activities, local history and photographs.
This Is North Scotland - The Press and Journal and the Evening Express's web site provides all the latest news, sport and leisure.
Grampian Web Directory - A directory of websites about or in the Aberdeen and Grampian area of NE Scotland, ranging from hotels, business and oil industry sites to homepages.
Auchenblae Guenters - Information, pictures and news from the locality. Lists history, news, pictures, events and contact details.
Aberdeenshire Councillors - For the Royal Deeside Internet Area
Wiredshire - Aberdeenshire Council Education and Recreation location of information for curricular and educational use.
Braemar Guide - Contains history, accommodation and facilities information.
Newmachar - Information on the community along with photographs and links.
Kemnay Village Community Web - Providing local community links and information about this village.
Andrewsmith - Personal pages providing a small piece of Portsoy's history and includes a piece on Banff's Duff House.
Collieston's Century - This project looks at 100 years of the Aberdeenshire village of Collieston, using photographs, movie clips and oral testimony.
Luxury Limos Aberdeen - American stretch limo hire within the local area. Services, prices, photographs and booking information included.
Upper Deeside and the Cairngorms - A collection of photographs, with descriptions of the area, taken in the Upper Deeside region of the Scottish highlands.
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Aberdeenshire "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Aberdeenshire "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor Aberdeenshire Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Aberdeenshire We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Aberdeenshire May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Aberdeenshire "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Aberdeenshire A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Aberdeenshire The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Aberdeenshire I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Aberdeenshire The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Aberdeenshire "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Aberdeenshire The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Aberdeenshire Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison "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) Aberdeenshire "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Aberdeenshire "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Aberdeenshire Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Aberdeenshire This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Aberdeenshire "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger Aberdeenshire 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 Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aberdeenshire Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Aberdeenshire "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Aberdeenshire
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