Ballyclare Male Choir - Formed in 1933. Provides information on engagements, history, photos and sample clips from the latest CD.
Kennel Drumadowney - Small Irish kennel, breeding for working and show; also breeding Caviler King Charles Spaniels.
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Ballyclare If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Ballyclare
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Ballyclare 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 proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Ballyclare
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Ballyclare There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Ballyclare
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations 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 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ballyclare "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Ballyclare
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Ballyclare Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Ballyclare
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Ballyclare The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ballyclare
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Ballyclare "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Ballyclare
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx 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 I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Ballyclare "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Ballyclare
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Ballyclare The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Ballyclare
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) 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? I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Ballyclare Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins 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 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Ballyclare
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Ballyclare Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Ballyclare
