Grange Court - Self-catering accommodation. Includes local history, facilities, tariffs and contacts.
John J. McBride - Pharmaceutical chemist. Includes company profile and contacts.
William M Park - Gallery of paintings in watercolour and oils. Member of the Watercolour Society of Ireland and the Ulster Watercolour Society.
Baronscourt Estate - Details of the Baronscourt and Abercorn estate. Pictures, descriptions and information on accommodation.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Newtownstewart "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Man and wife make one fool. Newtownstewart
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Newtownstewart The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Newtownstewart
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Newtownstewart Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Newtownstewart
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Newtownstewart If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Newtownstewart
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Newtownstewart When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Newtownstewart
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Newtownstewart "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Newtownstewart
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Newtownstewart "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Newtownstewart
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Newtownstewart blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 What's new? Most of my wife. Newtownstewart
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Newtownstewart Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Newtownstewart
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Newtownstewart "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Newtownstewart
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Newtownstewart Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Newtownstewart
