The Willy Wallace Backpackers Hostel - Situated smack bang in the middle of 'Braveheart' country, perfectly located for backapackers to explore Scotland's historic past.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Hostels "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Hostels
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Hostels Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Hostels
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Hostels Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Hostels
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Hostels Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "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) Hostels
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Hostels Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hostels
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Hostels It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Hostels
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Hostels Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Hostels
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Marriage is a rest period between romances. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Hostels What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Hostels
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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Hostels "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "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 Hostels
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hostels Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 Hostels
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Hostels When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Hostels