Burren Country Cottages - Information on traditional Irish cottages situated at the edge of the Burren on McGraths family run dairy farm. Details of accommodation, activities and the area.
Fuchsia Holiday Cottage - Renovated farmhouse cottage in rural landscape close to Burren National Park, provides details of accommodation and activities in the area.
Boghill Music Centre - Residential workshops for mixed instruments in traditional Irish music. Calendar of events and information.
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Kilfenora Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
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A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Kilfenora "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Kilfenora
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Kilfenora Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Kilfenora
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Kilfenora Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Kilfenora
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Kilfenora Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Kilfenora
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Kilfenora "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Kilfenora
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Kilfenora The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Kilfenora
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Kilfenora The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Kilfenora
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Kilfenora Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Kilfenora
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Kilfenora Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Kilfenora
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "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) Kilfenora To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Kilfenora
