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Belfast Telegraph Online - Plenty of content here - news, business, jobs, homes, shopping, entertainment, motoring and an ex-pats club from the National Newspaper of Northern Ireland.
eastbelfast.com - A community-based web site providing information and resources relevant to people who live, work, shop, invest, or visit within the Greater East Belfast area.
Ireland Click - Features the Andersonstown News (bi-weekly), North Belfast News (weekly), South Belfast News and the Irish language national newspaper Lá (weekly).
Childrens Express - Belfast Bureau - Part of a national news agency where young people aged 8-18 produce articles on issues that are important to them but of interest to everyone.
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho News and Media And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, News and Media Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards 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 News and Media There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) News and Media Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) News and Media When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde News and Media People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. News and Media I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless News and Media "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law News and Media Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) News and Media "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) News and Media "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley News and Media "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard News and Media Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley "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 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster News and Media The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. News and Media He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton 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 A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley News and Media 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 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac News and Media For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 News and Media Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford News and Media No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. News and Media
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