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Airdaniar - Traditional, self catering croft on the Applecross coast in Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands.
Applecross Historical Society - Information about the history, culture and religious significance of this remote Gaelic community.
The Applecross Peninsula - A visitor's guide to the Applecross Peninsula, including pistures and local details on where to stay and things to do.
A romantic Highland hideaway - A secluded coastal cottage offering accommodation in the North West Highlands of Scotland. Ideal for those wishing to enjoy the tranquillity and romance of this beautiful area.
Venture Trust - Venture Trust (VT) is for young people aged 16-25 who want to make changes in their lives. At its centre in Applecross, VT runs residential courses that give young people a chance to take time out and think, try new experiences and learn new skills and meet new people.
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It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Applecross "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Applecross The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln Applecross Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Applecross Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber Applecross They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Applecross Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Applecross Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Applecross "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett Applecross "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Applecross In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. Applecross Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Applecross When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Applecross I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry Applecross Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Applecross Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Applecross
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