The Methodist Church - Methodism was introduced to Kinsale by Charles Wesley in 1748. John Wesley also visited the town at least 8 times between 1750 and 1789.
Kinsale Museum - Kinsale courthouse and museum. Information on the local history, RMS Lusitania,Lusitania Inquest,Giant, 1601 Battle, and other historical events in Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland.
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Society and Culture Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Society and Culture
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Society and Culture Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Society and Culture
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Society and Culture Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "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 There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Society and Culture Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Society and Culture "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Society and Culture
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Society and Culture "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Society and Culture
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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 "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Society and Culture No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Society and Culture
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Society and Culture The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Society and Culture
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
