Campbeltown - Details of the towns and villages of the Kintyre peninsula on the West Coast of Scotland.
Craigard House - Photographs and information about this converted 1882 Victorian grand house, near the famous Mull of Kintyre.
Tree Of Life Systems - Details of a computer repair company providing bespoke and accountancy software for personal computers using various operating systems.
Argyll Arms Hotel - Hotel information for this 25 bedrooms establishment which offers full en-suite facilities.
Come to Campbeltown - General information and links for the prospective tourist.
Torrisdale Castle Estate - Listings of self-catering apartments and cottages set in estate grounds just outside Campbeltown. Also describes the many visitor attractions close at hand.
Murray McDavid - Information on local and other Scottish whiskys.
Homeston Holidays - Mull of Kintyre holiday accommodation and horse riding centre.
Campbeltown SC - Providing information about the aims and objectives of sailing club as well as information about events and links to other clubs. Club contact details included.
SECNAD - Offering movement and dance in the locality for people of all ages. Provides the history of the movement and details of the various specialist areas that the group focus on.
Campbeltown Picture House - The film programme and information. Grade 2 listed building and the oldest purpose-built cinema in Scotland.
Picture Perfect - Specialized in repairing old and damaged photos. Also panoramas, editing, and special effects.
Campbeltown Standing Stone - Location directions and general information about this single standing stone.
Mull of Kintyre Sea Tours - Operating from Campbeltown and offering marine trips in commercial rigid inflatable boats. Lists Company information, tour options and location details.
Campbeltown Hospital - Information on this community hospital, built in 1993, and providing treatment and healthcare for the population of this area.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Campbeltown You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Campbeltown
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Campbeltown I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Campbeltown
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Campbeltown I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Campbeltown
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Campbeltown "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Campbeltown
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Campbeltown To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Campbeltown
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Campbeltown I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Campbeltown
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Campbeltown The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz 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 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Campbeltown
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Campbeltown Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Campbeltown
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Campbeltown "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Campbeltown
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Campbeltown No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Campbeltown
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Campbeltown Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Campbeltown