The Melvich Hotel - Comfortable, informal country hotel in Melvich, Sutherland with wonderful sea views.
Sharvedda - Sharvedda - a modern family bed and breakfast at Strathy Point on Sutherland's north coast. Sharvedda is endorsed by the Scottish Tourist Board and has an official three star rating.
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "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 "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Melvich and Strathy No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Melvich and Strathy
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Melvich and Strathy "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 "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Melvich and Strathy
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Man and wife make one fool. Melvich and Strathy If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Melvich and Strathy
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Melvich and Strathy "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Melvich and Strathy
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Melvich and Strathy 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 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Melvich and Strathy
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils 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 I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Melvich and Strathy Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Melvich and Strathy
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Melvich and Strathy Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Melvich and Strathy
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Melvich and Strathy Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Melvich and Strathy
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Melvich and Strathy Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Melvich and Strathy
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Melvich and Strathy The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Melvich and Strathy
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Melvich and Strathy Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Melvich and Strathy
