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The Cuan - Restaurant, bars, accommodation, activity breaks and conference facilities. Includes bed and breakfast tariffs and restaurant menus.
Strangford Arms Hotel - Features booking information and contacts.
EcoSeeds - Co-op growing and selling local provenance wildflower plants and seeds. Includes company profile and ordering information.
Tessellato Textiles - Offering linen wall hangings, quilts, and textile art. Includes information about the designer, Barbara Faibish, as well as exhibition listings.
Kilclief Ben Dearg - Local gaelic athletic club, with history, latest news, fixtures, results and contact details.
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper Strangford You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Strangford As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Strangford 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 Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Strangford To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying Strangford 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 "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') If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Strangford Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "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) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Strangford Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Strangford Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov Strangford The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig "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) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Strangford Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Strangford What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Strangford The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Strangford Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Strangford Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Strangford "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Strangford It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence Strangford "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Strangford "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu Strangford You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Strangford Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 Strangford Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words 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 Strangford
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