Crinan Hotel - Hotel and restaurant in Argyll fishing village.
Gemini Cruises and Water Taxi - Cruises to look at the seals and bird life, teeming among the rocks and islets in Loch Craignish and the Sound of Jura.
Crinan Guest House - Offering cottage style accommodation in Argyll on the beautiful West Coast of Scotland. Overlooking the village of Crinan and the Crinan Canal.
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Crinan "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "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) Crinan
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Crinan "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Crinan
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Crinan Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Crinan
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender 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 My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Crinan I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Crinan
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Crinan Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Crinan
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Crinan If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Crinan
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Crinan "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Crinan
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Crinan To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Crinan
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Crinan I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Crinan
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Crinan In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Crinan
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Crinan I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Crinan
