Health Club Net - Directory of health, fitness and aerobics clubs and gyms in the area.
Burns Howff Club - Robert Burns lived, worked and died locally. Celebrates his life and works through a series of events, some developed especially for children.
The Globe Inn - Favourite haunt of poet Robert Burns. Popular pub crammed with Burns heritage and has a range of imaginative Scottish gift ideas available online.
Nithcree Training Services - Providing a number of driving and industry training courses by approved instructors. Lists location information and details of available training.
Savings Banks Museum - Located in Ruthwell and founded by Rev Henry Duncan restorer of Ruthwell Cross. Its history, archives, publications and location details are included.
Saint Teresa's - Catholic church. Contact details, Mass times, history, tour, parish groups are included.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Dumfries "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Dumfries
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Dumfries Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Dumfries
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Dumfries "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Dumfries
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Dumfries What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Dumfries
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Dumfries Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Dumfries
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Dumfries Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 Dumfries
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "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) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Dumfries Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Dumfries
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Dumfries A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Dumfries
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Dumfries This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Dumfries
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Dumfries The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Dumfries
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Dumfries Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Dumfries
