Invergordon Community Website - A site dedicated to promoting the town, the attractions, the facilities and the people of Invergordon and the surrounding area.
DocMac - Bed and breakfast accommodation in the small village of Milton. Location, booking form, room details including photographs are included.
Invergordon Lifeboat - Information about the station and the work of the men and women who form the crew.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Invergordon However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Invergordon
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Invergordon It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Invergordon
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Invergordon We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Invergordon
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Invergordon If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Invergordon
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Invergordon I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Invergordon
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Invergordon If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Invergordon
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Invergordon Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "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 Invergordon
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Invergordon There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Invergordon
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Invergordon Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Invergordon
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "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) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Invergordon Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Invergordon
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Invergordon "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Invergordon
