Bonkle Village and Church - History of Bonkle, Bonkle Church and surrounding area including photographs
Cumbernauld Unofficial Web - Community information ranging from basic history to available leisure facilities.
Shotts History Group - First web site featuring excerpts of our publications together with lots of articles and photos of past and present Shotts.
Shotts and Cambusnethan - Personal pages detailing several branches of the Steel family. Includes features and articles of historical and genealogical interest.
Wishaw Christian Outreach Centre - Providing pastor, event, project and meeting details. A vision statement and links to associated site are included.
HCPT : The Scottish Youth Group. - Unofficial site for the group members to keep in touch. Includes calendar of events and photographs.
Banton and Twechar Parish Churches. - Giving details of the churches buildings and history, forthcoming events, directions map, news and services, photographs and contact e-mail link.
Partners in Play - Local charity aiming to provide inclusive opportunities in childcare, play-schemes and out of school care facilities for children with a disability. Lists services, progress and management structure.
Monklands Online - Information on genealogy and local history for the areas around Airdrie and Coatbridge.
Revival Radio - A Christian community radio station broadcasting twice a year under restricted licences. Based in Cumbernauld.
Broadband Campaign for Kilsyth - Campaign pages aimed at getting Kilsyth upgraded for broadband Internet access. Listing the perceived benefits, FAQs and online petition.
North Lanarkshire Advocacy Project - Project managed by a committee of people labeled with learning disabilities with aims to improve the lives of those in similar circumstances. Provides information presented in graphical format.
Broadband4Wishaw - Devoted to broadband for Wishaw. Includes the latest trigger data from BT and news of the campaign's activities and successes.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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inex Society and Culture The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
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- Niels Bohr "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Society and Culture
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
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"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Society and Culture Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Society and Culture
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Society and Culture
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Society and Culture Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Society and Culture
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Society and Culture The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Society and Culture
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Society and Culture "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Society and Culture "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Society and Culture
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Society and Culture "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Society and Culture
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Society and Culture A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture
