Inner East Youth Project - An organisation which exists for the benefit of the young people of east Belfast. The site gives some information about their work, and the local area.
Netmums Belfast - Information for mothers on topics like health, schools, community groups, and child-friendly churches and leisure activities, as well as a noticeboard for members. This volunteer-run site now requires free registration to allow access to any of its information.
Parents Advice Centre - A service for parents and young people offering support, guidance and counselling.
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Youth "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Youth
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Youth He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Youth
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Youth I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Youth
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Youth Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Youth
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Youth It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Youth
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Youth "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Youth
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Youth It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Youth
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Youth How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Youth
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 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. Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Youth "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Youth
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Youth "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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 Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Youth
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Youth I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Youth
