Todds Leap Activity Centre - Corporate entertainment venue with details of facilities, activities and packages available, plus photos and visitor information.
Street Ceili - Held annually with entry form and details of the upcoming event.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ballygawley She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Ballygawley
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Ballygawley "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Ballygawley
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Ballygawley When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Ballygawley
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "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) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Ballygawley The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "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 Ballygawley
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Ballygawley Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Ballygawley
"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) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ballygawley That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Ballygawley
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying 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 If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Ballygawley Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands 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 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Ballygawley
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 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 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Ballygawley Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Ballygawley
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Ballygawley "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Ballygawley
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Ballygawley "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Ballygawley
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Ballygawley People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Ballygawley
