Cookstown District County Council - Site includes information on council services, an accommodation guide, and information on economic development.
Cookstown and District Snooker League - Includes a rundown of snooker league activities, player profiles, sponsorship opportunities, challenge matches and contact details.
The Burnavon - Multi-purpose facility catering for a wide range of events and activities. Details of upcoming shows, booking information and galleries of previous events.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Cookstown In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Cookstown
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Cookstown "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Cookstown
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Cookstown "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin 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) Cookstown
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Cookstown Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Cookstown
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl 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) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Cookstown It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Cookstown
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Cookstown Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Cookstown
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cookstown Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Cookstown
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "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 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Cookstown You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Cookstown
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Cookstown Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Cookstown
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Cookstown The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Cookstown
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire 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 "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Cookstown The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Cookstown
