Armagh Observatory - A modern astronomical research institute. Founded in 1790 by Archbishop Richard Robinson, the Observatory is one of the UK and Ireland's leading scientific research establishments.
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Armagh Planetarium - Science centre featuring a portable inflatable planetarium. Available shows for children and adults, letters from children and online booking facilities.
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Armagh, City of Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Armagh, City of
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Armagh, City of Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Armagh, City of
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Armagh, City of All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Armagh, City of
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Armagh, City of Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Armagh, City of
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Armagh, City of "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Armagh, City of
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Armagh, City of "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Armagh, City of
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Armagh, City of "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Armagh, City of
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Armagh, City of Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba 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 Armagh, City of
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Armagh, City of Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Armagh, City of
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Armagh, City of The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone 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 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Armagh, City of
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Armagh, City of Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Armagh, City of
