The Ben Loyal Hotel - Situated in Tongue, the perfect base for fishing, stalking, climbing, birdwatching.
Tongue Hotel - Former Duke's lodge, now comfortable Highland hotel.
Cape Wrath Hotel - Award winning 200 year old hotel in the far north-west.
Strathan Skerray Cottage - New family holiday home in remote glen 500 metres from sandy beach. Suitable for most wheelchair users coming as part of a family. 3 double/twin bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, most modern conveniences. Cattle grid. Lovely views. Dogs welcome.
Braetongue. - Holiday cottage sleeps up to 6, located in the Kyle of Tongue.
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Durness and Tongue It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Durness and Tongue
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Durness and Tongue 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 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Durness and Tongue
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Durness and Tongue Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Durness and Tongue
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Durness and Tongue "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Durness and Tongue
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Durness and Tongue There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Durness and Tongue
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Durness and Tongue Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Durness and Tongue
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Durness and Tongue At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Durness and Tongue
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Durness and Tongue A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Durness and Tongue
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 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Durness and Tongue There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Durness and Tongue
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Durness and Tongue A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Durness and Tongue
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Durness and Tongue "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Durness and Tongue
