Ballymena Town Council - The official town site. Has listings of tourist amenities, the Ecos environmental centre, community relations and economic development initiatives.
Ballymena Times - Details of local news, sports and features.
Radio Cracker Ballymena - Charity radio station. Includes information on making a donation and a facility to listen to the station online when it is broadcasting.
B.C.H. Self Drive - Car hire company with rates, vehicle details and booking information.
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Ballymena Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Ballymena Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Ballymena
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Ballymena The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Ballymena
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Ballymena If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Ballymena
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ballymena Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Ballymena
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Ballymena Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Ballymena
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Ballymena "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Ballymena
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Ballymena Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Ballymena
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Ballymena If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Ballymena
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Ballymena The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Ballymena
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Ballymena Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Ballymena
