Red House Hotel - Town Centre Hotel offering corporate facilities and a wedding venue.
Strathmore Bowling Club - One of the most successful clubs in the Strathmore League and over the years have won numerous trophies and honours.
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Coupar Angus "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Coupar Angus
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
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-- Benjamin Franklin The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Coupar Angus
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Coupar Angus The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
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Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Coupar Angus Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
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- Sherlock Holmes Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Coupar Angus
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Coupar Angus Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler 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, There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Coupar Angus
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Coupar Angus A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Coupar Angus "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Coupar Angus
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Coupar Angus Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Coupar Angus
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
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-- Helen Keller Coupar Angus 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 "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Coupar Angus
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Coupar Angus "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Coupar Angus
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Coupar Angus Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Coupar Angus
