Royal Jubilee Arms - 100 year old family run Scottish hotel in Dykehead, at the foot of the beautiful Scottish Glen Prosen and Glen Clova
Jus-Tina Knitwear - Jus-Tina Knitwear, Scottish designer knitwear, Based in Kingoldrum, by Kirriemuir, Gateway to the Glens.
J D Wilkie Ltd - Industrial textiles, specialising in synthetic filament and spun yarn. Includes company history, product information, and contact details.
Lochside Lodge - Details of accommodation, restaurant and bar. Gallery and contact details.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Kirriemuir Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Kirriemuir
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Kirriemuir Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Kirriemuir
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Kirriemuir Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Kirriemuir
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous 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 "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Kirriemuir It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Kirriemuir
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Kirriemuir The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Kirriemuir
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Kirriemuir I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Kirriemuir
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Kirriemuir God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Kirriemuir
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Kirriemuir Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Kirriemuir
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Kirriemuir 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 This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Kirriemuir
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Kirriemuir I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Kirriemuir
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Kirriemuir These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Kirriemuir
