Down Live - Local guide and community directory of businesses throughout the county.
Greencastle - Local information site for this coastal town. Details of tourist attractions, controversial conservation issues around the area, history and wildlife.
Newry And Mourne District Council - Provides information on the council, its services, economic development as well as tourist information.
Ards Borough Council - Information on council services plus tourism and investment opportunities.
The Borough of North Down - The official government site which provides information for both visitors and local people.
Coney Island - Information about the only inhabited island on Lough Neagh, including history, archaeology, flora and fauna.
Strangford Lough - Provides information on the environment, marine and conservation of the area.
The Aquarius Mourne Water Project - Replacement of approximately 42 kilometres of the existing Mourne Conduit pipeline which was originally constructed at the turn of the 20th century. Includes history, progress reports and archaological information.
Darragh Cross - Provides information on products and services available to the local community. Site includes a forum on local matters.
Lisburn Borough Council - Provides information on the council, its services, economic development as well as tourist information including accommodation.
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Down You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Down
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Down Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Down
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra 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 Down "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Down
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Down They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Down
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Down There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Down
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "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) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Down Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Down
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Down Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Down
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel What's new? Most of my wife. Down To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Down
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Down Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Down
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Down "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Down
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Down 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 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
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