Rootsweb Carlow - A series of links and resources for genealogists.
The Poor Clares - Information about the order and their work.
Bennekerry Parish - Information on a Catholic parish in north County Carlow.
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Society and Culture May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Society and Culture
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Society and Culture
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Society and Culture
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Society and Culture
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Society and Culture
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Society and Culture One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Society and Culture
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Society and Culture Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Society and Culture Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Society and Culture
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Society and Culture "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Society and Culture
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Society and Culture Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Society and Culture
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Society and Culture
