Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard - The on line version of the local newspaper with a selection of news, subscription rates, contract newspaper printing, advertising rates and a history of the newspaper since its inception in 1871.
dunoon.tv - Live webcam of argyll street, Dunoon, Argyll. Also provides a directory of information about local businesses and services.
Holy Loch, Naval Submarine Base Reunion - Holy Loch reunion is scheduled for 31 April to 3 May, 2001. For all Military, dependants and civilians serving at Holy Loch, Scotland.
Fit4Lif - Aerobics classes and personal training programmes with fitness instructor Lorraine Robinson in Dunoon.
Corrigall Black - Searchable properties database for solicitors and estate agent in Argyll. Includes information for new buyers and details of legal services offered.
Western Ferries (Clyde) - Local car ferry which operates all year round. Includes timetables, prices, local area information.
Bell Woven - Fabric label manufacturer. Includes description of services and contact details.
Dunoon Maternity Users' Group - Representing all those who use the maternity facilities in Dunoon Hospital and Supporting a 24 hour facility.
Dunoon Bookpoint - Local bookshop carrying a range of fiction and non-fiction. Features books about Cowal and the Clyde with pricing and brief description of each book.
Flower Gallery - Florist offering on-line ordering for flower deliveries worldwide. Provides information on services, ordering, terms and conditions together with online store.
Stewart and Bennett - Estate agents listing services, building properties and plots for sale.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Dunoon Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Dunoon
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Dunoon Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Dunoon
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunoon There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Dunoon
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "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) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dunoon The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Dunoon
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger 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 If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Dunoon "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Dunoon
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Dunoon It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Dunoon
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Dunoon "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Dunoon
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Dunoon Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Dunoon
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James 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 Dunoon No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Dunoon
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Dunoon We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "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." Dunoon
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Dunoon "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Dunoon
