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The Official Carrickman's Carrickfergus Web Site - Information and links for the town of Carrickfergus on the East Antrim coast.
Castle FM - Short term radio station broadcasts every June and December from Carricks DeCourcy Centre.
N.I. Music Company - Details on discos, bands, pianists and other entertainment for weddings, dinner dances, and parties.
Scotch Quarter Practice - Includes opening hours, surgery times, clinics, practice area map and patient information.
LXX - Metal band. News, biography, photos, lyrics, guestbook and links.
Third Carrickfergus Brass Band - Includes history, photos, engagements and contact details.
Third Carrickfergus Brass Band - Concert and competition band affiliated with the Boy's Brigade. Includes history, news and events.
Roneen Art - Gallery of local watercolour artist, Ronnie McClune. Includes gallery of paintings, with information on how to order.
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Carrickfergus There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Carrickfergus The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein Carrickfergus Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. 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But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Carrickfergus My other wife is beautiful. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge 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 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Carrickfergus The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Carrickfergus I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford Carrickfergus Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer Carrickfergus Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Carrickfergus There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Carrickfergus She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Carrickfergus Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Carrickfergus "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Carrickfergus My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Carrickfergus An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Carrickfergus Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Carrickfergus The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Carrickfergus Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous Carrickfergus Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Carrickfergus If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Carrickfergus
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