The Harbour Lodge - Self-catering facilities and also bed and breakfast accommodation. Located in Portree.
Isle of Skye Guide - Directory of information for this Island. Sites to visit, places to stay or eat. Local culture and heritage.
Portree House and Garden Cottages - Restaurant also offering bed and breakfast within the house or in the cottages. Each cottage is self-contained and fully fitted.
Trotternish Tourism Association - A collection of businesses offering tourist accommodation, bars, restaurants, and activity centers on the Trotternish Peninsula.
Ard Chuain - Scottish Tourist Board four-star bed and breakfast establishment with ensuite rooms. Facilities, room information, tariffs and self catering availability.
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-- Susan Ertz Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
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- Benjamin Franklin Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
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-- Diane Ackerman Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin Accommodation
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
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-- Peter Oakley I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Accommodation "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
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-- Jeanne Moreau You can observe a lot by watching.
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Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Accommodation Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
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-- Billy Joel Accommodation
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Accommodation 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
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be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Accommodation
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
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-- Rogers Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Accommodation If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
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-- Henry Ford 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 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Accommodation
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
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-- August Strindberg It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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-- Sigmund Freud Accommodation People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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-- John Weitz, American Designer We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
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-- Tom Robbins Accommodation
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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-- Racine A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Accommodation
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
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I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
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-- Bhagava Gita Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Accommodation
