Gougane Barra - Information about the hotel and activities including angling.
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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 Gougane I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Gougane
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign 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 community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Gougane The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Gougane
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Gougane In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost 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 When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Gougane
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Gougane It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Gougane
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Gougane When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Gougane
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Gougane "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Gougane
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Gougane To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Gougane
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Gougane "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Gougane
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "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) Gougane Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "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 Gougane
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Gougane Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Gougane
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr 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. In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Gougane It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Gougane
