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Clan and Family Tartan Finder - Search for the tartan(s) of each Scottish Clan. Provides links for buying kilts.
A Tribute to Tartans - Genealogy information on over 30,000 names and the tartans which their owners are entitled to wear.
European Union Tartan - A newly designed European Union tartan with clothing items on display. Contact information available.
The Scottish Tartans Authority - Provides a tartan certification service and offers online shopping for Scottish books and mobile phone covers. Directory of associated product links and contact information also included.
Scottish Tartans Society - Features a comprehensive online searchable register of tartans, and offers information and news related to the society.
Tartan Bitmaps - Official tartan database with over 2700 tartan bitmaps. Also offers free PC wallpaper and name search, with the possibility of ordering a CD about tartans.
Tartans of Scotland - Register of all publicly known tartans. With a searchable database and information on interpreting, making and buying the tartan.
Highland Traveler - Offers history, maps and pictures of the tartan and crest of each clan.
Scottish Clans, Septs and Distinguished Families - Clan index search engine traces over 60,000 families. Full color display of family tartan. Although only 250+ available now, added to daily till complete. Tartan and Clan Badge giftware, tartan mousepads.
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Tartans Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Tartans We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker Tartans Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton Tartans Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Tartans Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Tartans "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Tartans What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Tartans The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Tartans You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Tartans "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) 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 Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Tartans "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle Tartans Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon "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) Tartans A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. "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) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Tartans Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Tartans If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) 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 Tartans We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. Augustine The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Tartans "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Tartans Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Tartans "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln Tartans "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Tartans "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Tartans
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