National Museum of Scotland - Historical maps of Scotland dating from the 16th and 17th centuries made by Timothy Pont.
Stirling Surveys - Stirling Surveys is an independent mapmaking and publishing company specialising in the production of high quality maps and plans for a wide variety of organisations.
Maps of Scotland.com - Aimed at providing the widest range of maps and guides on Scotland including tourist maps; guides; charts; atlases; satellite maps.
On the Road in North-West Scotland - Over 2,500 photos and corresponding map segements with "you are here" markers allow you to travel along many roads in Wester Ross and Sutherland.
National Library of Scotland: Map Library - Collection highlights online: maps of Scotland 1560-1928, Pont's maps c.1583-c.1596, military maps (18th century), Ordnance Survey town plans 1847-1895 and the Blaeu Atlas 1654.
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Maps and Views My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Maps and Views
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Maps and Views Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Maps and Views
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Maps and Views Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
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 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Maps and Views "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Maps and Views Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Maps and Views
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Maps and Views Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Maps and Views
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Maps and Views The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Maps and Views
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Maps and Views "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Maps and Views
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Maps and Views If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Maps and Views
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Maps and Views I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Maps and Views "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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