Garnock Lodge - Bed and breakfast accommodation in Lochwinnoch, near to Glasgow airport.
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Accommodation "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Accommodation
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Accommodation In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Accommodation
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "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) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Accommodation
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Accommodation The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Accommodation
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "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.) Accommodation A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Accommodation
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Accommodation "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Accommodation
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Accommodation
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 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Accommodation "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Accommodation
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Accommodation Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Accommodation
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Accommodation A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Accommodation
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Accommodation Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Accommodation
