Blue Nightclub - Inverness nightclub. Events listings, gallery, online membership application and reviews.
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery - Describing the exhibits and facilities. Lists hours of opening, contact details, address and location map.
Champin' at the Bit - Inverness based Ceilidh band available for functions, dances and ceilidhs. Includes list of current bookings.
Inverness Opera Company - Provides general information, office bearers, performances and patrons details.
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-- Madame de Rieux I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
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-- Beau Brummel Arts and Entertainment The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Arts and Entertainment
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
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-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Arts and Entertainment
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger 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. Arts and Entertainment "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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-- Grover Cleveland Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
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-- Vladimir Nabokov The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Arts and Entertainment
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-- Abraham Lincoln Everything that can be invented has been invented.
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-- Henry James Arts and Entertainment Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
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-- Susan Ertz War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Arts and Entertainment
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Arts and Entertainment There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Arts and Entertainment
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "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 Politics have no relation to morals.
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-- Harry Truman "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Arts and Entertainment "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Arts and Entertainment Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Arts and Entertainment
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
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- Thomas Jefferson Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer Arts and Entertainment The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Arts and Entertainment
