Visit Saltcoats - Offering business, tourism and accommodation information, and useful links for this Ayrshire town.
Ayrshire Golf Guide - A-Z and review of local courses compiled by local low handicap golfers.
Education Resource Service - Promotes the services of this body and provides a growing collection of educational web resources to support teaching and learning.
Fishing in Kilbirnie - Provides information on this activity for the locality. Includes tackle, location details and photographic gallery.
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow North Ayrshire The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) North Ayrshire
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) North Ayrshire "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain North Ayrshire
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "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) North Ayrshire "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers North Ayrshire
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale North Ayrshire "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright North Ayrshire
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson North Ayrshire We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen North Ayrshire
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau North Ayrshire Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) North Ayrshire
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) North Ayrshire "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch North Ayrshire 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 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) North Ayrshire
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words North Ayrshire I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis North Ayrshire
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon North Ayrshire An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) North Ayrshire
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) North Ayrshire Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) North Ayrshire
