Lurgan Ancestry - Genealogical resource with database of records, plus maps, photos and discussion.
Lurgan Baptist Church - Includes history and worship times, as well as information about clubs and activities.
Lurgan Elim Church - Contains an overview of the church activites with sections on the various forms of worship, weekly programme, beliefs, events, a chatroom and contact details.
Lurgan YMCA - Provides information about the organisation's aims, staff and projects.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Society and Culture "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Society and Culture Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Society and Culture "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Society and Culture
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Society and Culture I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Society and Culture
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Society and Culture blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Society and Culture
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Society and Culture As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "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) Society and Culture
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Society and Culture
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society and Culture There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Society and Culture
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte 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 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Society and Culture
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Society and Culture "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Society and Culture
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Society and Culture "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Society and Culture
