The Connexion - Details of group activities and events for single people aged 30 or over who are visiting or residing in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland Federation of Clubs - Catering for the needs of private member non profit-making clubs. Includes membership details and information about the federation magazine.
LetsGoNI - Organising trips and events for single, divorced, separated and widowed people. Not a dating agency. Includes membership information and forthcoming events.
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Clubs and Lodges There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Clubs and Lodges
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "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 Clubs and Lodges "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Clubs and Lodges
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 "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Clubs and Lodges "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Clubs and Lodges
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Clubs and Lodges If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Clubs and Lodges
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Clubs and Lodges Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Clubs and Lodges
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Clubs and Lodges Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clubs and Lodges
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Clubs and Lodges Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Clubs and Lodges
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) 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 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Clubs and Lodges The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Clubs and Lodges
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Clubs and Lodges "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Clubs and Lodges
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Clubs and Lodges What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Clubs and Lodges
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner 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 "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clubs and Lodges Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Clubs and Lodges
