Scoil Chríost Rí - Boys primary school situated in the southern suburbs of Cork City.
CIT Students' Union - About student life at the Cork Institute of Technology.
Rockboro Primary School - International multi-denominational primary school based at Hillsboro. Gives a calendar, details on staff and activities.
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Education 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 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Education "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Education
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Education "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Education
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 "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) 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 Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Education
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Education In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Education
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) 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.
-- Crow Education I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Education Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Education
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Education Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Education
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Education
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Education "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' May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Education
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "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) Education A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Education
