Killeshandra - Information on the village of Killeshandra.
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Killeshandra When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Killeshandra
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Killeshandra "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Killeshandra
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Killeshandra Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Killeshandra
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana 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 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Killeshandra "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Killeshandra
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Killeshandra "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Killeshandra
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Killeshandra "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Killeshandra
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Killeshandra I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Killeshandra
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Killeshandra "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Killeshandra
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) 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 the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Killeshandra Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Killeshandra
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Killeshandra I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Killeshandra
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Killeshandra Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Killeshandra
