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RCAHMS - Web site of The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, including CANMORE - Computer Application for National Monument Record Enquiries, which allows on-line querying of the National Monument Record of Scotland. The site also describes RCAHMS' work in the fields of archaeology and architectural history.
The Famous Grouse - Lists museums and galleries in Scotland.
Biggar Museum Trust - Founded in 1972 and controls a number of museums. It has gained awards from Come To Britain, Museum of the Year, as well as the Tennent Caledonian Prize for community effort in 1988.
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Museums Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words Museums There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Museums After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Museums The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Museums I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Museums "... 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) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "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 Museums It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Museums My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Museums "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Museums Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Museums I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Museums Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Museums Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Museums I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Museums One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Museums If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon Museums Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Museums The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Museums 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 a He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Museums "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Museums The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Museums
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