Originart Shetland - A virtual tour of Shetland, with several thousand photographs of the Shetland Isles.
Northern Isles Weather - Regularly updated weather information covering Shetland and the Orkneys. Includes a webcam of the current situation in Fair Isle.
Fair Isle Weather Station - In depth retrospective weather data from one of the UK's northern-most weather stations. Last updated January, 2000.
Shetland Islands Council - Departmental information and scenes from the most northerly local authority in the UK.
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Shetland "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Shetland
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Shetland Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Shetland
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Shetland blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Shetland
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Shetland "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Shetland Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Shetland
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Shetland "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Shetland
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II 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 He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Shetland The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Shetland
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Shetland "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Shetland
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Shetland The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Shetland
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams 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 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Shetland Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Shetland
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Shetland 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" They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Shetland
