Welcome to Angus - Local council web site, with information for tourists, residents and businesses.
Letham Angus - Photographs of the village, local history, information about local groups and organisations, plus a guestbook.
The Monikie - Community information and articles of local and historical interest. Also covers Newbigging.
Montrose Port Authority - Photographs and information detailing the facilities and services available.
Carnoustie - Contains local information and links. Includes hotel and accommodation information, plus listings of bars and restauraunts in the local area.
Area 49 RTBI Strathtay & Fife - Local pages for this organization. Provides news, events and items of interest to members.
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Angus Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Angus
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Angus Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Angus
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) 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 mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Angus All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Angus
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Angus Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Angus
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Angus Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Angus
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins 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 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Angus Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Angus
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Angus Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Angus
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Angus There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Angus
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Angus When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Angus
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Angus Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Angus
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Angus A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Angus
