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Wee County News - Local newspaper covering the towns and villages of Alloa, Clackmannan, Sauchie, Tullibody, Kincardine, Menstrie, Alva, Tillicoulty, Dollar and Muckhart.
Creative Fizz - Event design services for private commercial and corporate events from parties and weddings to product launches and company days.
Clackmannanshire Community Information - Information about community groups, voluntary organisations, sports clubs, youth organisations and arts and cultural societies.
Hillfoots Consultancy Services - Offering a Business Consultancy service. Contains links to site map, details of services, gives e-mail address and telephone number. Also contains a link to unrelated Holistic service.
Clacksnet - Aims to assist local community groups in Clackmannanshire, to get online, create their own web sites and provide useful community information.
ClacksWeb - Community portal listing business, Council, learning, community, health and visiting information. Various contact pages and full address details are included.
Drive-Rite School of Motoring - Driving school offering information on driving lessons, courses, prices, theory and practical tests and areas covered.
Interphase Design - Graphic design for print, multimedia, WWW design, authoring and refurbishment to customers. Lists services, portfolio and contact details.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Clackmannanshire The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein Clackmannanshire "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, Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "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) Clackmannanshire And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi 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 Clackmannanshire There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers Clackmannanshire "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clackmannanshire There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy 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 "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Clackmannanshire Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Clackmannanshire It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Clackmannanshire I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Clackmannanshire If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre Clackmannanshire The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Clackmannanshire "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Clackmannanshire "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown Clackmannanshire Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Clackmannanshire "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman Clackmannanshire Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones "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) Clackmannanshire Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Clackmannanshire In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Clackmannanshire Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Clackmannanshire Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman Clackmannanshire Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Clackmannanshire
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