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Village Folk Thornhill - Scenic village offering a variety of shops, businesses and places to visit.
Nithouse - Victorian town house in the heart of the village and offering bed and breakfast accommodation. Lists room information, visitor attractions and details of the tea shop.
The George Hotel - The George Hotel is a former Coaching Inn in the village of Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Hope Cottage - Self Catering holiday cottage with details about the facilities and location.
Templand Cottages - Offering holiday cottages in the locality. Providing property information, activities, fishing and travel details.
Old Tannery Cottage - Rental accommodation for a self catering holiday located in the village. Lists room information, facilities and prices.
Buybest Tinplate Toys - Supplying and distributing tinplate toys from around the world. Lists product information, venues and contact details.
Drumlanrig Castle - Castle, visitor attractions and home to the Duke of Buccleuch. Lists buildings and gardens information, events and visitor information.
Nether Glengenny Farm - Offering smallholder experience weekends or bed and breakfast on a self sufficient smallholding. Also provides details of the surrounding area, facilities and activities.
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Thornhill He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Thornhill >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel Thornhill Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf 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 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Thornhill "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Thornhill Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost Thornhill Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous "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) "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) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Thornhill The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa Thornhill Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Thornhill "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Thornhill Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 Thornhill "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Thornhill Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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 Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Thornhill Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Thornhill "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford 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 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Thornhill Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Thornhill Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Thornhill Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Thornhill "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) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) 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 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Thornhill "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Thornhill I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Thornhill The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Thornhill
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