Strabane District Council - Provides information on economic development, tourism, structure and make-up of the council and its services.
Western Health Action Zone - Established to improve the health and well-being of older people and families living in poverty.
Mourneside Family Practice - Comprehensive information on the doctors and staff, the location, opening hours and services available at this medical practice.
Strabane Chronicle - Strabane's local newspaper, with news, sports and letters.
Katy Dalys - A nightclub. Details of DJ sets and forthcoming events.
LifeStart Strabane District - Provides home-based parenting and child development programme for families with children from birth to five years. Basic organisation information and links to relevant sites.
St Joseph's Brass Band - Performs in concerts and parades. Includes news, history and event listings.
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Strabane Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Strabane
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Strabane Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Strabane
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Strabane "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Strabane
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Strabane We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Strabane
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Strabane Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Strabane
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Strabane No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Strabane
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Strabane Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Strabane
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Strabane The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Strabane
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Strabane And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Strabane
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Strabane Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Strabane
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Strabane Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Strabane
