Bangor Northern Ireland - Online guide and directory to the town, featuring entertainment, business, churches, public services and restaurants amongst others.
Bangor Goes Global - A portal site with many listings for the local area. This site also includes news by a local newspaper.
Gary Devon - An Irish artist based in Northern Ireland who is recognised by his vivid, Fauve-like paintings of figures in landscapes and townscapes.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Bangor God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Bangor
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Bangor Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Bangor
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Bangor There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Bangor
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Bangor The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Bangor Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Bangor
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer 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 Bangor Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Bangor
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Bangor Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Bangor
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" 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 Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Bangor We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler 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 Bangor
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Bangor 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 Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Bangor
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Bangor Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Bangor
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Bangor "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Bangor
