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Isle of Skye Business Community - An interactive guide to the locality and Island of Raasay. Pictures, people, places, business, maps, property, history, wildlife and news.

Island of Pabay - Small island off the coast of Skye, issues its own stamps. Much wild life, otters and seals.

Raasay Heritage Trust - Organization dedicated to preserving the culture and history of this small island near Skye. Basic information on the area, fundraising campaign, newsletter, information on the Trust's genealogical library.

Feisean nan Gaidheal - Independent umbrella association of the Fèis movement. Information about the organisation and staff.

Portree Riding Stables - Established in 1998 as a small, quality BHS approved riding school and training establishment that also offers holiday recreational riding. Full description of services and facilities.

Romesdal Highland Cattle - Pictures of cattle from the area with some text as to the suitability of this breed for this region.

John Cross Clinics - Details of orthodox and complementary therapies available, as well as publications, posters, lectures and workshops.

Dunvegan Medical Practice - Providing medical, dental, healthcare and community nursing services for the people of North West of the Island.

Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson "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 There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Skye and Lochalsh Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Skye and Lochalsh Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- Skye and Lochalsh Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words Skye and Lochalsh Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Skye and Lochalsh Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Skye and Lochalsh Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Skye and Lochalsh By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Skye and Lochalsh "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Skye and Lochalsh Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington Skye and Lochalsh "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis 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 Skye and Lochalsh A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Skye and Lochalsh A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Skye and Lochalsh "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Skye and Lochalsh "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce Skye and Lochalsh Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Skye and Lochalsh "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Skye and Lochalsh Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Skye and Lochalsh Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Skye and Lochalsh A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Skye and Lochalsh One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Skye and Lochalsh Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V Skye and Lochalsh
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