Ecosse Unique - Large selection of traditional holiday properties in beautiful locations all over Scotland. All carefully selected and inspected to meet the highest standards.
Wigwam Holidays - Offers an inexpensive holiday experience of being at one with nature, outdoors in Scotland, yet with the comfort of unique environmentally friendly cabins.
Association of Scotland's Self-Caterers - Description, photos, rates and online booking forms for all members of the Association throughout Scotland. Bookings are made directly with each property.
Large Holiday Houses - Database of self catering properties including farmhouses and castles with links to individual property information pages.
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "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) Self Catering "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Self Catering
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Self Catering If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Self Catering
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Self Catering A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Self Catering
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Self Catering With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Self Catering
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Self Catering The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Self Catering
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Self Catering The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Self Catering
"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) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Self Catering "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Self Catering
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Self Catering An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Self Catering
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Self Catering "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Self Catering
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work 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 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming 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 Self Catering Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden 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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Self Catering
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Self Catering When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Self Catering
