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Shetland Jewellery - Traditional silver and gold jewellery drawn from both Scandinavian and Celtic designs.
Shetland Collection - A collection of traditional and contemporary knitwear available for purchase direct from Shetland knitters working in their own homes.
Shetland Knitwear Trades Association - Represents fifteen knitwear manufacturers in the Shetland Isles, and aims to protect the use of the term Shetland as it relates to knitwear.
Skyinbow Ltd. - Designers of electric stringed instruments. Includes information on the products and soundclips of the instruments being played.
Shetland Wool Carpeting - Hand-crafted rugs made from a Shetland wool blend. Designs inspired by Norse and Celtic traditions. International mail order available.
Vanellus Images - Offer a selection of including wildlife, landscapes and seascapes. Gallery and contact details.
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live 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. -- Anonymous Crafts The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Crafts Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Crafts "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Crafts A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Crafts ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa Crafts Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Crafts "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach Crafts Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Crafts Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Crafts 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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Crafts "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Crafts Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford Crafts I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein Crafts Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Crafts Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats Crafts 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 Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. 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 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Crafts We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Crafts The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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 world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Crafts All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm Crafts "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates Crafts Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Crafts
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