Ulster Gardens Scheme - Open garden event to raise fund for the National Trust in the province. Includes event calendar and contacts.
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Gardening My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Gardening
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers 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 A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Gardening Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Gardening
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Gardening I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Gardening
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Gardening The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Gardening
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Gardening Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Gardening
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "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') Gardening I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Gardening
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Gardening Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Gardening
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Gardening "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Gardening
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Gardening Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Gardening
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Gardening "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Gardening
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Gardening Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Gardening
