Broughshane - Village famous for its award-winning floral displays. Features accommodation listing, community group information and travel details.
Buckna Presbyterian Church - Rural community church, situated just outside of Broughshane. Information about the church, its organisations, committees, outreach, and prayer requests. Printed sermons by minister also available.
Braid Sheddings Sheep Association - Marketing and promotion for the local area. Details of the annual sale and history of this organisation.
Stephens Catering Equipment - Supply and maintenance for a range of equipment. Details and photographs of the products supplied.
McNeill Hardware - Offering a range of DIY, garden, decorating and household goods.
Jav Stitching - Personalised soft furnishings and clothes. Includes samples and pricing information.
Sir George White Memorial Flute Band - Associated with the Braid, Ballymena and Belfast Districts of the Orange Order. Includes history, events and photos.
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Broughshane Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Broughshane
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "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 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Broughshane There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Broughshane
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Broughshane Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Broughshane
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "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) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Broughshane Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Broughshane
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Broughshane Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich 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 Broughshane
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Broughshane I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Broughshane
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Broughshane "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Broughshane
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Broughshane The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Broughshane
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Broughshane Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Broughshane
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Broughshane "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Broughshane
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Broughshane The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Broughshane
