The Loch Lomond and The Trossachs Interim Committee - Official site for Scotland's recently designated first National Park. Provides map, Designation Order, visitor services and info on current projects and planning, allied organizations, events and meetings, and various SNH proposals.
BBC News: National park 'goes live' - The first national park in Scotland is legally "born" - less than two weeks before it becomes fully operational.
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Loch Lomond and Trossachs If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Loch Lomond and Trossachs
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Loch Lomond and Trossachs Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Loch Lomond and Trossachs
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Loch Lomond and Trossachs "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Loch Lomond and Trossachs
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Loch Lomond and Trossachs Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Loch Lomond and Trossachs
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Loch Lomond and Trossachs Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Loch Lomond and Trossachs
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Loch Lomond and Trossachs I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Loch Lomond and Trossachs
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Loch Lomond and Trossachs I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Loch Lomond and Trossachs
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Loch Lomond and Trossachs Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Loch Lomond and Trossachs
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Loch Lomond and Trossachs Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Loch Lomond and Trossachs
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long 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 The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Loch Lomond and Trossachs In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Loch Lomond and Trossachs
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper 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 blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Loch Lomond and Trossachs Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Loch Lomond and Trossachs
