Adventure Hebrides - A guide to the adventures hidden in the Outer Hebrides off the West Coast of Scotland.
The Hebridean Trust - Founded by residents and visitors in 1982, helping the economies of the islands and working to preserve the unique way of life.
Cala Hotels - Establishments in the Outer Hebrides. Offering accommodation and holiday packages.
Virtual Hebrides - Providing visitor information and accommodation for the locality. Links to Scottish music and books are also included.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Travel and Tourism "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Travel and Tourism
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Travel and Tourism
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Travel and Tourism When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Travel and Tourism
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Travel and Tourism Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Travel and Tourism
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Travel and Tourism
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Travel and Tourism
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Travel and Tourism
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 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Travel and Tourism
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Travel and Tourism "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Travel and Tourism The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
