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Castletownbere Guide - Accommodations with online reservations, pubs, restaurants, events and history.

Island View House - Details of the accommodation,reservation form, information on activities in the area.

Hillbrook Park - Offers a self catering holiday home and a apartment. Situated at the foot of Hungry Hill the highest mountain in the county.

J.J. O'Sullivan Estate Agents - Offers information on residential property and vacation accommodation in West Cork.

Castletownbere - Information website on Castletownbere, the main town of the peninsula and Ireland's main white-fishing port.

Lighthouse View Cottage - Self catering accommodation overlooking Berehaven harbour. Gives rates and details plus area information.

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It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Castletownbere You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf Castletownbere Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Castletownbere "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol Castletownbere Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Castletownbere The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Castletownbere Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Castletownbere "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Castletownbere The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Castletownbere Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson 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 Castletownbere "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil Castletownbere I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Castletownbere There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Castletownbere When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Castletownbere Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana Castletownbere "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Castletownbere
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