Blackrock College RFC - Senior rugby club with team news, match reports, event guide, links and contact information.
Kill O' The Grange Parish - Nineteenth century church located in Kill Lane, Deansgrange. Details of church services, who's who, newsletter, organisations and information on a Community Employment Programme.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Blackrock "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Blackrock
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Blackrock At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Blackrock
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Blackrock "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Blackrock
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) 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 Blackrock There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Blackrock
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blackrock We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Blackrock
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Blackrock I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Blackrock
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Blackrock When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Blackrock
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Blackrock "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Blackrock
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Blackrock 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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Blackrock
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Blackrock "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Blackrock
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Blackrock Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Blackrock
