Newtownards District Orange Order - The governing body of Orange Lodges in Newtownards - a guide to events and parades held in the District and a look at individual lodges
Buck Eejit - An online newspaper bringing you the REAL news from around the Newtownards area. Also contains an online forum and videos section.
St John's Church - Traditional Anglican parish located in Newtownards, Ireland. Contains schedule of services, contact information and a brief history of the parish.
Scrabo Presbyterian Church - Presbyterian Church in Ireland congregation. Information about leadership, youth activities and their vision strategy. Also includes prayer line to submit prayer requests.
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Society and Culture "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Society and Culture The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Society and Culture
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Society and Culture We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Society and Culture
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Society and Culture Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Unhappy All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Society and Culture
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams 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 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Society and Culture
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "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 In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Society and Culture "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Society and Culture
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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. Society and Culture "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Society and Culture
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Society and Culture Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Society and Culture
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Society and Culture
