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Turners Cross - Site dedicated to the locality of Turners Cross, Cork.
Cork City - Information about Cork as presented at the CIT website.
Cork City Web Cam - Live view of Patrick Street from Cork's 96FM.
Cork City Council - Municipal local authority, contains information on the Council, its services and the City.
Port of Cork - Information on facilities, history, and photo of the City port and harbour.
Weather Channel - Local weather for Cork City from the Weather Channel.
East Tours Cork - Offering guided day tours from the city around the county. Includes details on the tours and sites to see.
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Cork City A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton Cork City When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous Cork City Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Cork City A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower 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 If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev Cork City Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Cork City Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason "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) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Cork City "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 "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Cork City If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Cork City "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich Cork City It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) 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 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 "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Cork City "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Cork City "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Cork City "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Cork City Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Cork City Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Cork City There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Cork City The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs Cork City Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Cork City "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Cork City 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 Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Cork City There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Cork City
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