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Methodist Church In Ireland - Substantial site for this Christian Church working across the island, with news, diary, discussion area, contact notes, background and history, details of congregations, missions and chaplains, works, resources and links.
Methodist Church in Ireland Online Listing - Not part of the official site (also listed), this is a gathering of web links and e-mail addresses for Methodist communities across Ireland.
Lay Witness Movement - Network of lay people in the Methodist Church in Ireland, who seek to share their experience of Jesus Christ with others through weekend events with local congregations. Overview, news, archives and contact.
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Methodist "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Methodist A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Methodist "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Methodist "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( Methodist I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Methodist "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr Methodist I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Methodist "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado Methodist "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Methodist "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Methodist The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous Methodist "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Methodist "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Methodist If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Methodist Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D 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. -- Crow Methodist There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese Methodist I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Methodist The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Methodist History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Methodist Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen Methodist What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Methodist
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