Mountshannon Hotel - Luxury accommodation in the picturesque East-Clare village of Mountshannon.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual 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
successfully Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Mountshannon He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Mountshannon
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "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, Mountshannon "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "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) Mountshannon
"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, The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Mountshannon When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Mountshannon
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Mountshannon "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant 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 Mountshannon
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Mountshannon Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Mountshannon
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Mountshannon A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Mountshannon
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Mountshannon "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Mountshannon
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Mountshannon blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Mountshannon
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Mountshannon Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Mountshannon
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 When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Mountshannon During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Mountshannon
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "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) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Mountshannon Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Mountshannon
