Oban And North Argyll - Intended as the first point of contact for anything on the Net to do with the region.
The Argyllshire Gathering - Highland games held in the Town during August - history and contact details of forthcoming events - home to the Oban Gold medal for piping -highland dancing and games as well as pipe bands.
Argyll Animal Aid - Local charitable animal rescue centre. Listing general information, lost and found, sponsorship, rescue, rehousing and joining details.
Feis Latharna - Annual Gaelic Arts Youth Tuition Festival. Information on tutors, programme, and venue.
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Oban There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Oban
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Oban "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Oban
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Oban "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Oban
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Oban An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Oban
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Oban I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Oban If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Oban
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Oban Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Oban
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Oban The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Oban
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Oban Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Oban
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Oban When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "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) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Oban
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Oban >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Oban
