Gracehill Golf Club - Situated outside the village of Stranocum near Ballymoney. Details of course, fees, fixtures and results.
Ballymoney Rugby Club - Club news and reports, plus events and entertainments guide.
Joan Shannon - Offering freelance services in writing, editing, dtp design and photography. Includes galleries of previous work.
Stables Gallery - Includes artist profiles and exhibition information.
The Village Gallery - Oils and watercolours by Irish artists, including Tom McGoldrick, Adrian Margey, Frank McKelvey, David Overend. Includes location and contacts.
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ballymoney "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Ballymoney
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Ballymoney "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Ballymoney
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ballymoney If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Ballymoney
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje 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 Ballymoney This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Ballymoney
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Ballymoney The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words My other wife is beautiful. Ballymoney
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Ballymoney Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Ballymoney
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Ballymoney There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Ballymoney
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Ballymoney The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Ballymoney
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Ballymoney "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Ballymoney
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Ballymoney Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Ballymoney
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "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) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Ballymoney The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ballymoney
