Rural Scotland - Shaping Partnerships, the White Paper on Rural Scotland.
Crofters Commission - The Crofters Commission aims to develop and regulate the crofting system and to promote the interests of crofters.
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye 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 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Rural Affairs Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Rural Affairs
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Rural Affairs It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Rural Affairs
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Rural Affairs Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Rural Affairs
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) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Rural Affairs Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Rural Affairs
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Rural Affairs Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Rural Affairs
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Rural Affairs No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Rural Affairs
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Rural Affairs "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Rural Affairs
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Rural Affairs The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Rural Affairs
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Rural Affairs Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Rural Affairs
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Rural Affairs "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Rural Affairs
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Rural Affairs blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Rural Affairs
