Liam Hodnett Estate Agents - Offers residential and commercial sites, new property developments and related information.
Grove House - Details of accommodation and dining.
Flower Lodge - Bed and breakfast accommodation situated on a working dairy farm.
Collbawn Lodge - A beautifully maintained traditional farmhouse situated near Skibbereen in the heart of scenic West Cork. It is ideally located for touring and welcomes children.
The Eldon Hotel - Details of accommodation and contact information.
Palm Grove - Situated for touring South West Cork and Kerry.
Bunalun Farmhouse - Bed and breakfast on a working dairy and beef farm.
Whispering Trees - Modern, comfortable home set in scenic and tranquil surroundings off the main Baltimore road.
Charles McCarthy - Auctioneers specialists in all types of property. Gives details and photographs of properties on offer.
Riverbank Cottage - Cottages to rent, gives contact, location and accommodation details.
Skibbereen Heritage Centre - Features the famine commemoration exhibition and Lough Hyne visitor centre.
PK Lodge - Bed and breakfast, provides details of rates and location.
Skibbereen - Directory of local businesses, shops, restaurants and pubs. Includes a guestbook, bulletin board and a town map.
Town and Country Auctioneers - Estate agency operating on the south west coast of Ireland. Includes search options for commercial and residential properties.
Deelish Garden Centre - Information on collecting and growing unusual plants, particularly trees and shrubs plus organic seeds and plants for sale.
Coomahalig - Details on self-catering accommodation in historic gamekeeper's cottage. Photo gallery.
Lurriga Gardens - Offering self-catering accomomdation in three-bedroomed house.
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Skibbereen I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 Skibbereen "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Skibbereen
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Skibbereen We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Skibbereen
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Skibbereen The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Skibbereen
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Skibbereen The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Skibbereen
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Skibbereen Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Skibbereen
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Skibbereen Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Skibbereen
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Skibbereen The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Skibbereen
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Skibbereen Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Skibbereen
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Skibbereen Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Skibbereen
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Skibbereen "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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