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Portpatrick - A historical archive of Portpatrick village, and a resource of local information.
Truckpull Portpatrick - Annual event to raise money for charity. Strongmen challenge along with the Carlsberg keg lift are the highlight of the day. Listing information on previous events.
Fernhill Hotel - Situated in Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway (backdrop of 2000 Acres of Sky). Seafront hotel overlooking Portpatrick harbour near the Mull of Galloway, with rosetted conservatory restaurant - house speciality, seafood.
Portpatrick Golf Club - Dunskey - Situated in South West Scotland overlooking the North Channel to Ireland, the area enjoys a temperate climate due to the Gulf Stream and Golf is playable all year round.
Galloway Point Holiday Park - Includes details of the facilities, amenties, charges, and local area. Also offer caravans for hire.
Waterfront Hotel - Situated on the seafront. Includes details of accommodation, restaurant, and local area, with photo gallery, reviews, and maps.
Robert McQueen UK & Eire Marine Operations - Fully insured and certified marine services company. Provides vessel information, picture gallery and contact details.
Morroch Bay - Details of self catering beach cottages in a private bay. Tariff and contact information.
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) 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 Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Portpatrick He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Portpatrick 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 Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Portpatrick Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Portpatrick One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Portpatrick Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Portpatrick Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Portpatrick "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle Portpatrick "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Portpatrick What's new? Most of my wife. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Portpatrick "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan Portpatrick Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Portpatrick We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain Portpatrick Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Portpatrick After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Portpatrick Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Portpatrick If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Portpatrick I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Portpatrick Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes Portpatrick Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld Portpatrick "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Portpatrick I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Portpatrick
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