Seapatrick Parish - Church of Ireland Parish. Includes news, worship schedule, clubs and activities.
Banbridge Genealogy Services - Offering services to trace ancestors from the County Down area that date back to 1790 through to the 1920's.
Banbridge Baptist Church - Local Baptist church, with scripture messages, pastor details and contact information.
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Society and Culture Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Society and Culture We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Society and Culture
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Society and Culture No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Society and Culture
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Society and Culture Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Society and Culture
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Society and Culture "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Society and Culture
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Society and Culture Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Society and Culture
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a rest period between romances. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Society and Culture
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Society and Culture A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture
