Derry City Council - The City of Londonderry, also known as Derry, is the economic centre for northwest of Ireland. The site provides information for citizens, for visitors to the area, and for businesses.
S.T.E.E.R. - Mental health organisation with newsletter, contacts and photos.
Irvine Removals - Includes services, location map and contact details.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Londonderry, City of Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard 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 Londonderry, City of
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Londonderry, City of Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Londonderry, City of
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar 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 Londonderry, City of "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Londonderry, City of
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Londonderry, City of "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Londonderry, City of
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Londonderry, City of "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Londonderry, City of
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Londonderry, City of A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Londonderry, City of
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Londonderry, City of The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Londonderry, City of
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Londonderry, City of Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Londonderry, City of
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Londonderry, City of "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Londonderry, City of
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Londonderry, City of Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Londonderry, City of
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Londonderry, City of In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton 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 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Londonderry, City of
