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Poyntzfield Herb Nursery - Culinary, aomatic and mdicinal herbs. Over 400 plants and seeds available through mail order. The catalogue contains information about their varied uses.
Cromarty Courthouse Museum - An award winning registered museum providing an enjoyable way to explore Cromarty's past, with resources for those with a serious interest in the history of the North of Scotland.
Newfield - Traditional bed and breakfast near Cromarty.
Calico UK - Internet service provider based in Cromarty
Plexus Media - Multimedia and Internet company locally based.
Burnside Steading - 3-bedroom holiday cottage in a quiet rural location 5 miles from Cromarty.
Virtual Cromarty - Provides interactive tour of the locality. Includes information on accommodation and local attractions.
The Royal Hotel - Family run hotel on the Black Isle with the picturesque surroundings of the Highlands of Scotland.
Cromarty Live - Community pages listing events calendar, local council minutes, news, business and environment information.
South Sutor Gun Emplacements - Photographic tour of the subterranean gun emplacements on the South Sutor. Map and sketch information is also included.
Cromarty Image Library - Offering numerous pictures of the town, searchable by year, subject or contributor. Allows the addition of textual information to each picture.
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Cromarty When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Cromarty Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Cromarty In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Cromarty Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Cromarty "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Cromarty Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Cromarty The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx Cromarty Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Cromarty Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams Cromarty "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Cromarty He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Cromarty Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Cromarty The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Cromarty America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Cromarty The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Cromarty Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Cromarty "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde Cromarty Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin Cromarty If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Cromarty He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones "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) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Cromarty I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Cromarty
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