Targemaker - Joe Lindsay handcrafts quality reproductions of original Jacobite targes (Scottish shields) in his small workshop at North Kessock near Inverness.
Caravan Holidays in Scotland - Three modern static caravans (one designed for wheelchair access) on the Coulmore Bay Caravan near Charleston.
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "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, the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian North Kessock "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) North Kessock
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) North Kessock There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) North Kessock
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) North Kessock "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) 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 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor North Kessock
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet North Kessock "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) North Kessock
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) North Kessock Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin North Kessock
What's new? Most of my wife. "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler North Kessock "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus North Kessock
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) North Kessock Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) North Kessock
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe North Kessock I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben North Kessock
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid North Kessock The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker North Kessock
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words North Kessock Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson North Kessock
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel North Kessock Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) North Kessock
