Isle of Gigha - Accommodation and places to visit on Gigha.
Gigha Community Heritage Trust - Describes the activities of this community trust formed to purchase the island for the Gigha Community.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Isle of Gigha "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Isle of Gigha
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Isle of Gigha Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Isle of Gigha
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Isle of Gigha Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Isle of Gigha
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Isle of Gigha The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Isle of Gigha
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "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 second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Isle of Gigha "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Isle of Gigha
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Isle of Gigha "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Isle of Gigha
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Isle of Gigha The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Isle of Gigha
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Isle of Gigha "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Isle of Gigha
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski 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 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Isle of Gigha It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Isle of Gigha
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Isle of Gigha "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) 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 Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Isle of Gigha
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Isle of Gigha "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Isle of Gigha
