Lowland Group - For business centres and workspace in South West Scotland.
GM Thomson and Company - Estate agents, land agents, chartered surveyors and valuers with property for sale and rent in South West Scotland. Offices in Newton Sewart, Dumfries, Castle Douglas, Annan and Stranraer.
JB GRaham - Estate Agency - Real estate, property, mortgages. Stranraer based serving south west Scotland and beyond.Sales and rentals. Good local knowledge and contacts.
Wallets Mart - Auctioneer, valuers and estate agents giving details of property and quota.
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Property Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Property
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Property Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Property
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Property The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Property
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Property Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Property
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Property The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "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) Property
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Property "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Property
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) 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 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Property To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Property
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Property "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "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) Property
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Property "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Property
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Property Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Property
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Property Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Property
