Lislee House - Four self catering cottages set in the grounds of a historical country house.
Summer Cove Lodge - Details of accommodation, photographs, links and contacts.
Mariners View - Self catering accommodation with views of Courtmacsherry inner bay.
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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-- Charles Pierce Courtmacsherry
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Courtmacsherry To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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inex A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Courtmacsherry
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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-- Billy Joel Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Courtmacsherry
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Courtmacsherry Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Courtmacsherry
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar 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 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
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-- Abbie M. Dale Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Courtmacsherry
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Courtmacsherry Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
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-- Alvin Toffler 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 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Courtmacsherry
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
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"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Courtmacsherry "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Courtmacsherry
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni 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 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Courtmacsherry "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Courtmacsherry
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Courtmacsherry I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Courtmacsherry When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
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-- Helen Keller One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell 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
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