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"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Animals Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Animals
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Animals If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Animals
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Animals I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Animals
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Animals "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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 Animals
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Animals "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "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) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Animals
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb 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 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) Animals Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Animals
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Animals Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Animals
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "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, Alice in Wonderland Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Animals For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Animals
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Animals I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Animals
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Animals What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Animals
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Animals A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Luck is the residue of design.
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