Doolin - Information about the village including traditional music and activities in the area, accommodation links and a map.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Doolin "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Doolin
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Doolin "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Doolin
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Doolin "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Doolin
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Doolin "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Doolin
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) Doolin "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Doolin
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Doolin Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Doolin
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Doolin Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Doolin
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Doolin I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Doolin
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Doolin It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Doolin
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Doolin "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "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) Doolin
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Doolin When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Doolin
