Bagenalstown Guide - Information pages to the town and the Barrow valley. Offers activities, the annual river festival in August, photographs and a guestbook.
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Bagenalstown The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Bagenalstown
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Bagenalstown He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Bagenalstown
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Bagenalstown Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Bagenalstown
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Bagenalstown "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Bagenalstown
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Bagenalstown A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Bagenalstown
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Bagenalstown "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "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) 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 Bagenalstown
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Bagenalstown To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde 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 in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Bagenalstown
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Bagenalstown Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Bagenalstown
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Bagenalstown "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau 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 Bagenalstown
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Bagenalstown The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Bagenalstown
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Bagenalstown This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Bagenalstown
