Girvan Academy - Sixth form rural comprehensive. Listing school information and details of web page production pupils.
Chris Lawrence - For impartial and independent ICT advice and consultancy. Internet training, small networks, consultancy and web design are main areas of activity.
Girvan Folk Club - Meets every Friday night at the Ailsa Craig Hotel. Lists news, forthcoming events and photographic gallery.
Blair Farm - Offering farmhouse bed and breakfast accommodation. Lists room information and rates, location, visitor attractions and contact addresses.
Girvan Visitor Centre - Proving tourist and visitor information for the locality. Includes events diary, directory and shop information. Local emergency service numbers and contact details are also included.
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Girvan We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 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 Girvan
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Girvan A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Girvan
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Girvan Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Girvan
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Girvan "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Girvan
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Girvan More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 Girvan
... 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
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Girvan "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Girvan
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Girvan Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Girvan
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Girvan "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Girvan
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Girvan MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Girvan
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Girvan Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Girvan
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Girvan The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Girvan
