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Melrose - Official site offering news articles, business directories, rugby information, things to do and a history of the town.
Active Sports - An outdoor activity company based in the Scottish Borders, ran by a family of friendly, qualified instructors.
Treeforce - Information on Treeforce's services as well as contact information.
Alex Dalgetty & Sons - Online shop specialising in Scottish handmade food and original baking.
Tweed Pest Control - Listing details about wasps, mice, rats, moles, rabbits and grey squirrels. Provides information on solutions and contact details.
Melrose RFC - A comprehensive site about the club including fixtures, results, membership, profiles, history and a gallery.
Melrose 7s - Comprehensive site about the club including fixtures, results, membership, profiles, history and ticket application form.
Ormiston and Renwick Garden Centre - Garden centre and florist in the south of Scotland. Online bouquet ordering and garden centre gift vouchers delivered throughout the UK.
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper 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. -- Anonymous Melrose The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Melrose "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work "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 Melrose When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy Melrose A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler 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 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Melrose My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates Melrose It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Melrose Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln Melrose In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown Melrose Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Melrose The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Melrose There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein Melrose "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Melrose Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Melrose You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain Melrose If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Melrose Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall 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 My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West Melrose The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Melrose A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Melrose Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Melrose "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." "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Melrose An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Melrose
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