Doolin Tourism - Tourism and travel guide to this small seaside village on the northwest coast of clare, near the cliffs of Moher and Aran Islands.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Travel and Tourism Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Travel and Tourism
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Travel and Tourism
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Travel and Tourism blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Travel and Tourism
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Travel and Tourism A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Travel and Tourism
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
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 The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Travel and Tourism
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Travel and Tourism The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Travel and Tourism
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Travel and Tourism That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Travel and Tourism
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Travel and Tourism
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism
