The Spinnaker Hotel - A small, family-run hotel in a classic seaside holiday town, Gourock.
Foresters House - Family run bed and breakfast accommodation in riverside Victorian house, Inverkip.
Inverkip Hotel - Small, family-run hotel set in the heart of Inverkip, a historic conservation village on the magnificent Clyde Coast of Scotland.
Castle Levan - 15th century castle accommodation in the Highlands of Scotland. Convenient for Glasgow International Airport.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Accommodation "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Accommodation Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Accommodation
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Accommodation If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Accommodation
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Accommodation Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Accommodation
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Accommodation No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Accommodation
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) 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 Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Accommodation
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Accommodation "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Accommodation
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Accommodation I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Accommodation
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "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) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Accommodation "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Accommodation
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Accommodation Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Accommodation
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Accommodation The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Accommodation
