Creetown Walks - Carrying the visitor through Balloch Wood out into the surrounding countryside. There will be sculture, wild art, wildlfie pond, birdhide, all developed by the local community.
Creetown Band - Fourth Section Band affiliated to the Scottish Amateur Brass Band Association. Lists concert and members information.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Creetown I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Creetown
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Creetown "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) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Creetown
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Creetown "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Creetown
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Creetown Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Creetown
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Creetown Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Creetown
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Creetown I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Creetown
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Creetown blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Creetown
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas 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 Creetown The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Creetown
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Creetown The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Creetown
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Creetown There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Creetown
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Creetown I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Creetown
