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Remembering RAF Edzell - Sharing memories of friends and events.
The Brechin and District Charitable - Charitable trust serving the communities of Brechin, Edzell and the Angus Glens. Contains local information and business listings.
Angus's (Other) Council - Seeks to expose the dodgy deals and manipulations of local politics within the Angus area. Articles, rants, and commentary, plus a gallery of trippy art.
The Monikie - Various information about and related to the Monikie area of Angus. Contributions are invited.
Kinnettles Heritage Group - The site provides information about the Kinnettles Parish including its people, buildings, wildlife, stories and photographs from the past. Also includes an online version of the "Kinnettles Kist".
Angus Surname Interest List - Contains information of interest to family historians and genealogists with specific interests in the county of Angus.
Sarah's Windmills - Local campaign to support the Ark Hill wind farm application. Includes a forum, guestbook, and childrens game area.
Ruralstar - Campaigning for Broadband for the local area. Listing events, links, discussions and classified advertisements.
Friockheim Historical Society - Official Website with details about the village and how to join the organisation.
Stevan Hogg - Personal photographs of the area.
Saint Bride's Catholic Church - Provides news, weekly bulletins, mass times and photographic gallery.
The Practical Pipers Society - Includes historical information on the society, a noticeboard and news on forthcoming events and activities, plus contact information.
Scotland's Tartan Day in Angus - The latest information on celebration in Angus. Every year on April 6th, Tartan Day commemorates the signing of the declaration of Arbroath.
The Scottish Town Of Forfar - Description of the town's history. descriptions of Balmashanner hill, Forfar Loch.
Crombie Park - History of the Angus Country Park, with scenic photos
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Society and Culture "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Society and Culture Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Society and Culture When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Society and Culture Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Society and Culture "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Society and Culture Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Society and Culture Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. Society and Culture We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Society and Culture "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Society and Culture He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Society and Culture Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Society and Culture Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone Society and Culture "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) 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 Society and Culture Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Society and Culture "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Society and Culture Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Society and Culture
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