West Cork Leader - The Cork rural development agency offering direct support to local initiatives.
Quality Recruitment - Irish recruitment agency specialising in computer jobs.
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Employment "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "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) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Employment
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Employment A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Employment
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Employment And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Employment
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Employment In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Employment
"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) 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 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Employment Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Employment
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers 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 Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Employment Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Employment
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Employment "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Employment
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Employment "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb 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 Employment
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Employment Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Employment
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Employment 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 A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Employment
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Employment I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Employment
