CÃ nan - Small company on the Isle of Skye, specialising in Scottish, Gaelic and related materials in a variety of media.
Foundation Course in Gaelic Language and Music - Full-time course in the traditional music and language of Gaelic Scotland based in the Gaelic-speaking islands of Uist, in the Western Isles.
Gaelic Scotland - Directory of resources relating to the Scottish Gaelic language and culture, including courses, music, history and Gaelic-speaking accommodation.
Itchy Coo - Specialist in supplying books in the Scots language - with online ordering. Includes downloadable teacher's notes and vocabulary lists.
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Language We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Language
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Language An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Language
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Language For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Language
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Language 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 ... 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
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Language
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais 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 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Language Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Language
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Language To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Language
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen 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 Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Language "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Language
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Language Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Language
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Language "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Language
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Language "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Language
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Language "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Language
