Camphill Community Mourne Grange - Adult community established in 1971. Features details of craft workshops and volunteering opportunities.
Don't Blow It - Community organisation to raise awareness of drugs and alcohol misuse. Includes details of training offered and information about substance abuse.
The Miners of Mourne - An historical account of Irish-born Henry J. Doyle's time mining in Butte, Montana, and his subsequent return to Kilkeel, Co. Down. Includes references to events in Ireland and Montana from 1900 to 1920.
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) 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 "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Society and Culture
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Society and Culture Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Society and Culture The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) 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 A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Society and Culture The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig 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 Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Society and Culture America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Society and Culture
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Society and Culture The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "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 Society and Culture
