Sherkin Island West Cork - Guide to the island including information on arts, accommodations, cultural sites and businesses.
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Guides and Directories Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Guides and Directories
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Guides and Directories There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Guides and Directories
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Guides and Directories Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Guides and Directories
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Guides and Directories Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Guides and Directories
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Guides and Directories Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Guides and Directories
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Guides and Directories The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Guides and Directories
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Guides and Directories Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Guides and Directories
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "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 "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Guides and Directories "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Guides and Directories
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "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) Guides and Directories In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Guides and Directories
