Newry Visitors Guide - A guide to Newry and the surrounding area of Co Down. Includes information on accommodation, entertainment and local history.
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Travel and Tourism Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty 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 Travel and Tourism Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Travel and Tourism
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "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 object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Travel and Tourism
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Travel and Tourism Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Travel and Tourism
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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 Travel and Tourism Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Travel and Tourism If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw 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 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Travel and Tourism In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Travel and Tourism
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Travel and Tourism War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Travel and Tourism
