Balbriggan - Offers photographs, new and old and some history on this coastal town in north county Dublin.
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He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "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) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin 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 "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Balbriggan I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb My other wife is beautiful. "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Balbriggan
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Balbriggan Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Balbriggan
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Balbriggan I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin 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 Balbriggan
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Balbriggan If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Balbriggan
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "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, ignorance, g It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Balbriggan "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Balbriggan
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Balbriggan "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Balbriggan
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "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) Balbriggan "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Balbriggan
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Balbriggan "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "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) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Balbriggan
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Balbriggan Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Balbriggan
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Balbriggan Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Balbriggan
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Balbriggan Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Balbriggan
