South Uist - Transport, sightseeing, accommodation - your complete guide to the Hebridean Isle of South Uist.
Ceolas Gaelic Music Summer School - A unique school that explores the interconnections between Gaelic song and language, Scottish traditional music and dance.
The Anglers Retreat - Comfortable accommodation for anglers on the Island of South Uist.
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland South Uist "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold South Uist
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) South Uist blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) South Uist
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde South Uist "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown South Uist
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting South Uist There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) South Uist
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth South Uist "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. South Uist
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) South Uist A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous South Uist
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain South Uist I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal South Uist
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley South Uist It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari South Uist
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) South Uist "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde South Uist
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain South Uist "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I South Uist
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 South Uist Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole South Uist
