Aarvak Gymnastic Services Limited - Supply, repair and maintenance all types of gymnastic, weight training, fitness and sporting equipment.
The Tell Organisation Ltd - Providing training and development for people and businesses - also business facilities for hire and recruitment services.
Dumbarton Health Centre - Includes practice information, opening times, self treatment and contact telephone numbers.
Harper Generators - A generator company hire company based in Dumbarton.
More Than A Memory (Online) 2 - Updated version of More Than A Memory - a Dumbarton local history project, with photos and recordings. Contribute to our online gallery.
The Motivated Mind - Provides a personal coaching and motivation service, which includes Life Success products and seminars.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Dumbarton When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Dumbarton
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dumbarton The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Dumbarton
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Dumbarton Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Dumbarton
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dumbarton I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dumbarton
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "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) Dumbarton It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Dumbarton
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Dumbarton 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 The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Dumbarton
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Dumbarton Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Dumbarton
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 "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) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Dumbarton Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey 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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Dumbarton
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Dumbarton We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Dumbarton
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dumbarton "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Dumbarton
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Dumbarton Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Dumbarton
