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Scotland's National Book Town - Scottish literature and books, bookshops and book dealers, publishers and publications, writers, poets, book events and festivals in the locality.
Dowling Stoves - Individually made to suit customers requirements. Multi fuel and wood burners.
Distilled Records - Local recording studio offering services to singer songwriters.
Isle Inspirations - Independent service working with charities and organisations concerned with disability and diversity issues.
Woodfall Gardens - Small family nursery specialising in dwarf box (Buxus sempervirens "Suffruticosa"), with price list and information on parterres and knot gardens.
Bravo Translations - Offering English to Spanish and Espanol al Ingles translation services.
Byre Books - Second hand range include folklore, mythology, theatre and film.
Reading Lasses - Book shop specialising in women's, social and gay and lesbian studies. Includes opening time and contact details.
The Music Shop - Stocking copies of previously enjoyed music sheets together with a selection of musical instruments.
123 LPG - Providing information about the benefits and costs of converting vehicles to LPG.
Borrowmoss Cottages - Tourist board listed accommodation. Listing property information, tariffs and outdoor activities.
Courtyard Cottages - 4 Self Catering cottages. Lists photographs and information about the properites, local attractions and booking details.
Galloway Country Sports - Fishing and shooting packages, run in conjunction with the Fordbank Country House Hotel. Deer management course available.
Lotuspoint - Shetland pony stud listing ponies and tack for sale, photographic gallery and show results.
Brora Lodge - Rates, location and visitor attractions are listed for this bed and breakfast establishment.
Ming Books - Deal in new, used and out of print books. Contact details.
Wigtown Agricultural Show - Held annually on the first Wednesday in August and is organised by the Wigtown Agricultural Society.
Wigtownshire Families - Genealogy history of the Stewart, McKie and Barr families from Wigtownshire. Also contains information about other families connected by marriage.
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 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 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Wigtown The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin Wigtown Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Wigtown Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Wigtown Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Wigtown "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Wigtown "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Wigtown Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Wigtown There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton Wigtown I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley Wigtown This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Wigtown We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Wigtown As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Wigtown The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud Wigtown In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Wigtown Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen 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 The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Wigtown I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Wigtown Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Wigtown The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Wigtown Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wigtown It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov Wigtown The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Wigtown
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