Kilcor Cottage - Details of four bedroomed cottage overlooking the Bride Valley.
Castlelyons Parish - Gives the history, clubs, sights, organisations and news in Castlelyons Parish. Includes some photographs.
Ballyvolane House - Award-winning accommodation,gourmet cuisine and fly-fishing for salmon on historic estate.
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Castlelyons Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Castlelyons
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. I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Castlelyons Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Castlelyons
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Castlelyons Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Castlelyons
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Castlelyons "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Castlelyons
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Castlelyons The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "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) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Castlelyons
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Castlelyons Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Castlelyons
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Castlelyons My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Castlelyons
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Castlelyons Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Castlelyons
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Castlelyons 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 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Castlelyons
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Castlelyons Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Castlelyons
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Castlelyons "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 man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Castlelyons
