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Papa Westray - Listing the archaeology and birdlife of this northern island. Photographs and information including accommodation and visitor attractions.
Orkneyjar - The history, traditions, folklore and heritage of the Islands are covered within this extensive site.
The Orkney Website - The official site of the Islands sponsored by the Orkney Tourist Board, Orkney Enterprise, and Orkney Islands Council, it features information on tourism, heritage, community, and business.
Orknet - The focus for all Orkney-related matters on the Internet. Featuring tourist information, a bulletin board for Orkney-related discussion, and Orkney businesses and organisations online.
The Orcadian Online - The newspaper of the Islands. Listing daily news, weather, features and articles.
Orkney Links Galore - Links to all things related to Orkney Islands, all on one page.
Orkney Islands - Supported by the Orkney Tourist Board and the Orkney Islands Council, this site contains comprehensive information about the islands' rich cultural heritage, pure environment and high quality products.
Charles Tait Publications - Postcards, calendars and guide books of Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and Caithness. Extensive photo library.
Orkney Health Board - Includes information on services provided, news and job vacancy listings.
Westray - 'The Queen O' The Isles.' Learn about life and community on this remote Orkney Island.
Orkney Area Index - Although mainly about Kirkwell there is information about what to see and do in Orkney generally.
Orkney Communities - Information for Orcadians, including news, events, community directory, image library.
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Orkney Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Orkney "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Orkney "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Orkney In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Orkney I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Orkney "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Orkney Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Orkney Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Orkney "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Orkney "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Orkney I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Orkney Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Orkney Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Orkney I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Orkney Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Orkney "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning Orkney Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Orkney If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Orkney Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Orkney I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright "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) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Orkney Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Orkney
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