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Marr Educational Resources Centre - Community resource offering free public access to computers and multi-media learning resources, based in Troon Library.
Marr College - Course descriptions and teacher information for Marr College, Troon.
South Beach Hotel - Privately owned family run hotel situated only minutes from Royal Troon Golf Course and the town of Troon.
Shephard Online - The Shephard family homepage from Troon, Scotland featuring links to Prestwick Airport, Seacat Scotland, golf and local accommodation.
Marr College Reunion 1979-85 - Details of the proposed reunion of 1979-85 former pupils of Marr College in Troon.
Troon Online - Directory of shops, businesses, services and homepages for the locality.
Anchorage Hotel - Independent hotel; specializes in golfing packages to local courses.
Copper Beech - 4 star bed and breakfast, highly commended by the Scottish tourist board. Located adjacent to Royal Troon Golf Club.
Highgrove House Hotel - Nine bedroom hotel situated high on a hill with panoramic views over the Ayrshire coastline.
Lochgreen House Hotel - 30 acre grounds with sweeping driveway to magnificent mansion built in 1905.
Marr College - 1996 to 2002 - Ex-pupil contact page. Includes message board and photograph gallery.
Thorncroft House - Bed and breakfast accommodation with details of the facilities and photographs.
Harford House - Bed and breakfast accommodation. Includes photographs and contact information.
Sarazen - Self catering accommodation with details of the facilities and prices.
Westwinds House - Bed and breakfast accommodation with details of the facilities, photographs and contact information.
Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Troon It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Troon I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen Troon Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Troon I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Troon A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Troon To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Troon An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Troon "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "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 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Troon When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Troon It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Troon Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Troon Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Troon History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Troon May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Troon You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Troon Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Troon Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Troon I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Troon "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words Troon I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Troon When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Troon
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