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Grayforth House - Residential care for the elderly, in Edinburgh and the Fife area. Located in Burntisland.
Balgonie Castle - Catering for weddings, banquets, receptions and corporate events. Listing function information, history, heraldry, fees, location and contact addresses.
Lochgelly Band - One of Scotlands oldest brass bands and are Scottish Champions (4th section) 2002.
What are Alcan up to in Burntisland? - Protest pages aimed at drawing the attention of people to the alleged activities of the Alcan company.
Anstruther Community Council - The Royal Burgh of Kilrenny, anstruther and District Community Council.
Anstruther Lifeboat Station - This site give details of all launches form Anstruther since 1997, includes photos of the boat and crew and information on the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in general.
Crawford Arts Centre - Originally founded by the University of St Andrews in 1977-78, the Centre is now independently run as a charitable company. It provides exciting exhibitions of all kinds of visual art, from sculpture and painting to photography, design & architecture; a studio theatre for varied groups to put on different kinds of shows and various art classes for young people and adults.
Maritime Fife - Based at St Andrews University. A research project which is an innovative, integrated study and interpretation of the maritime archaeological and historical resource of the Kingdom of Fife.
Blebo Craigs - The village of Blebo Craigs. E-postacrds, 360degree panoramas, a screensaver, bulletin board. Bringing Blebo into the information pool with a splash.
A Site for Sore Eyes - A user friendly site for visually impaired people, no frames or graphics. The site is an audio magazine format featuring streaming audio and is updated monthly. The eventual aim is to publish weekly.
Strathmiglo - Community information for a small Scottish village in North Fife.
Ferry Fair - Detail about the event at South Queensferry including history and pictures.
Dunino Farm - Arable and potato farm, read the farmer's diary, see what happens on the farm. Site aussi en Français.
Culross Harbour Restoration Project - Aims to restore the harbour of the Royal Burgh on the River Forth. Includes maps and photographs.
The Reaper - News and information on a Fifie Herring Drifter owned by the Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, a floating museum touring local waters.
Burntisland - Description, information and history. Includes a collection of recent photographs; bibliography; current affairs; and historical data.
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Society and Culture An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Society and Culture The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work Society and Culture "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Society and Culture Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Society and Culture No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Society and Culture What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Society and Culture I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society and Culture An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Society and Culture I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Society and Culture "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Society and Culture In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx 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 Society and Culture It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Society and Culture Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Society and Culture
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