True Vine Sound Ministries - Independent Christian ministry, also providing sales and hiring of audio equipment. Price list, service descriptions and staff details provided.
Carrickfergus Mencap Society - Charity which campaigns for equal rights for children and adults with a learning disability and offers a variety of services to them, their families and their carers. Includes news, activities and contacts.
Carrickfergus Junior Gateway - Youth club for children with special needs and learning difficulties. Includes leader profiles, activities and message board.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Society and Culture
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Society and Culture
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is 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 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Society and Culture
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Society and Culture
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "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) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Society and Culture Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo 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 When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Society and Culture
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Society and Culture >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 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Society and Culture
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Society and Culture
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Society and Culture "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Society and Culture
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "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) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Society and Culture
