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Borders Today - Providing news, sport, features, information and classifieds. Updated weekly and provides links to Hawick News and Selkirk Today.
ScottishTalk.com - providing news and current affairs; message and events boards, guest-book, gift and book shop.
Scottish Business Insider - Business information service with articles on financial markets, accountancy, law, technology and businesses in Scotland.
BBC News: Scotland - News, features, and in-depth analysis of issues relating to Scotland.
Scotsman.com - Daily coverage of Scotland's news, sports, business, as well as national and international events. Includes the newspapers The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and Edinburgh Evening News.
Scotsman.com - Daily coverage of Scotland's news, sports, business, as well as national and international events.
BBC News: Scotland - News, features, and in-depth analysis of issues relating to Scotland.
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) News and Media "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe News and Media "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) News and Media "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard News and Media Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley News and Media Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. News and Media I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln News and Media The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) News and Media "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell News and Media Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin News and Media "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf News and Media If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde News and Media "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai News and Media To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) News and Media Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning 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 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton News and Media "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill News and Media The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. Augustine I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. News and Media Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple News and Media "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford "... 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) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) News and Media "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 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 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns News and Media "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. News and Media
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