Ulster Defence Flute - Loyalist blood and thunder band assicated with LOL 1981. Includes photos and parade information.
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Society and Culture For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Society and Culture
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Society and Culture Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Society and Culture "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Society and Culture
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Society and Culture Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Society and Culture
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. 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 In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Society and Culture "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Society and Culture
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li 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 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Society and Culture Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Society and Culture
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Society and Culture One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Society and Culture
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx 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 Society and Culture In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President May you never leave your marriage alive. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) What's new? Most of my wife. Society and Culture The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Society and Culture