National Driver Information and Control System - NADICS provides a co-ordinated traffic management service for Scotland's strategic road network. The site give live traffic conditions and planned roadworks.
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Transport A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Transport
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Transport When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Transport
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Transport If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Transport
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Transport "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Transport
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Transport That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Transport
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Transport Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Transport
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Transport History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Transport
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Transport None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Transport
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Transport I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Transport
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Transport Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Transport
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Transport Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Transport
