Ardliath Cottage - Cottage for rent in Rossnowlagh, with some local information included.
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Rossnowlagh Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Rossnowlagh
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Rossnowlagh Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Rossnowlagh
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Rossnowlagh Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Rossnowlagh
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 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "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) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Rossnowlagh Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Rossnowlagh
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Rossnowlagh "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Rossnowlagh
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Rossnowlagh More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Rossnowlagh
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Rossnowlagh You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Rossnowlagh
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Rossnowlagh A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Rossnowlagh
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Rossnowlagh If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Rossnowlagh
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Rossnowlagh "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Rossnowlagh
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous 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 Rossnowlagh If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer 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 Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Rossnowlagh
