Cullybackey - This village is the ancestral home of Chester Alan Arthur, 21st President of the USA. History, map, accommodation and contact information.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Cullybackey I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Cullybackey
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Cullybackey There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Cullybackey
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Cullybackey We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Cullybackey
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Cullybackey "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Cullybackey
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Cullybackey A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Cullybackey
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Cullybackey An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cullybackey
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 I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Cullybackey "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller 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
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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Cullybackey Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein .. 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
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Cullybackey What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken 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.
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"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Cullybackey Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Cullybackey
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Cullybackey May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Cullybackey
