Ballyclare and District Historical Society - Offers lectures, excursions and visits to archaeological sites. Documents the history of the Six Mile Valley. Includes period photographs, details of publications.
Ballylinney Presbyterian Church - Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Details of the church, contacts, mission, location and current events.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Society and Culture
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Society and Culture America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Society and Culture
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Society and Culture You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Society and Culture
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Society and Culture The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Society and Culture
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Society and Culture "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Society and Culture "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Society and Culture Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Society and Culture The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Society and Culture
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Society and Culture If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Society and Culture
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Society and Culture There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Society and Culture
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Society and Culture If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Society and Culture
