Age Concern - Organisation whose aim is to promote the well-being of older people. Programme and activities information, contact details, past and future events all featured.
Rotary Club of Cookstown - This site describes the work of Rotarians in Cookstown. Information on the natural history of Mid Ulster is given along with a history of the Club.
Armagh Diocesan Youth Council - Serving youth within the Church of Ireland Armagh Diocese. Includes youth events and leader training opportunities.
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Society and Culture
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) 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 Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Society and Culture Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Society and Culture
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society and Culture
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Society and Culture If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good 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 "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Society and Culture Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Society and Culture
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Society and Culture I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin 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 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Society and Culture
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Unhappy Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Society and Culture Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Society and Culture
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Society and Culture The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Society and Culture
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
