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Galashiels - History, calendar of events, rugby and football fixtures, accommodation, local business and the Braw Lad's Gathering.
Kelso Online - Once described by Sir Walter Scott as "The most romantic if not the most beautiful place in Scotland", Kelso, in the Scottish Borders.
St Abbs Community Web Site - Information on the village located on the South East coast of Scotland.
Selkirk - The Royal and Ancient Burgh of Selkirk. History, public information, accommodation and the historic Common Riding.
Royal Burgh of Peebles - Online guide including places to visit, accommodation, photographs, eating places and links to National, Regional and Local places and organisations.
The Border Reivers - A location guide to the history of the Anglo-Scottish Borders during the times of the reiving clans. Includes battle sites, castles, towers, Border life, feuding, punishment.
Jedburgh On-Line - Bringing news and information to visitors and the townsfolk of Jedburgh.
Maxton - Listing information on the parish including maps, names and links, local businesses and contact page.
Kelso - History, tourist and local information, Civic Week and details of the surrounding area. Lists of local interest groups and links to the Chamber of Trade are included.
Ayton Village History - The historic of this village located in the eastern Scottish Borders in the former County of Berwickshire with a history stretching back over 2500 years to the time of the Celts.
Tweedbank Community Website - Providing local news and events, including the proposed Waverley railway line from Edinburgh.
Kelsonet - Providing a personal insight to Kelso. Contains news, fun and games, discussion forum and guest book.
Duns - Information and pictures from the Border town Providing a list of businesses and various photographic galleries.
Langholm Initiative - All about a small town in the eastern corner of Dumfries and Galloway: its history, walks, sports clubs, music festival, shops, businesses and accommodations.
Langholm Online - Personal web site containing photographs and information on the town of Langholm.
Yetholm Village - Information and news on the village of Yetholm, near Kelso in Scotland
Smailholm Village - History and general information about a small village in Roxburghshire
Ednam Village - Situated on the River Eden, near Kelso in the Scottish Borders.
St Bathans Library - Describes Abbey Saint Bathans and some of the events organised by the library.
Duns Primary School - Displays sections with children's work. Information for parents and contact details.
Hawick Common Riding - Information about the Hawick Common Riding.
Roxburgh Village - A history of Roxburgh Village by Brian Wain. Providing textual information about the village, church and railway. Includes old photographs and information about the author
"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) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Society and Culture In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Society and Culture Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Society and Culture Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Society and Culture "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Society and Culture Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Society and Culture In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Society and Culture Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Society and Culture I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito Society and Culture No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Society and Culture Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. 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 Society and Culture It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Society and Culture Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager Society and Culture Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen Society and Culture Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford Society and Culture
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