Invest in Inverclyde - Tourism, leisure, education, housing and economic development opportunities for the locality.
Clyde Valley Forum - Voluntary partnership of local authorities, organisations, businesses and communities committed to working towards integrated, sustainable management of the Clyde's environmental, economic and community resources.
Gourock Community Website - A guide to the locality. Containg business details, events, and pictures.
Sportscotland National Centre - One of three national centres providing opportunities in Scottish sport. Its prime function is as a place where full concentration can be focused on the improvement of coaching and performance in a wide range of sports.
Supply Control - Supply chain management consultancy services plus interim management and outsourced purchasing services. Global coverage from our headquarters in Scotland.
Inverclyde Leisure - Providing information on various sport centres run by the health and fitness group. Lists opening times, activities and instructors.
Impact LD Project - Learning disabilities employment and training opportunities in the region.
Oui - Restaurant serving French cuisine, Gourock. Menus and general information.
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Inverclyde "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Inverclyde
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Inverclyde We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Inverclyde
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Inverclyde Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Inverclyde
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Inverclyde Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Inverclyde
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Inverclyde Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Inverclyde
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Inverclyde Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Inverclyde
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Inverclyde My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem 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 Inverclyde
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Inverclyde Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Inverclyde
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Inverclyde If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Inverclyde
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Inverclyde Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Inverclyde
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi 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 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Inverclyde In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Inverclyde
