Redemptoristine Monastery of St Alphonsus - This sister order of the Redemptorists presents their background, reflections on their life, details of their community and chapel, and sections on vocations and prayer.
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Drumcondra Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown What's new? Most of my wife. Drumcondra
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Drumcondra "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) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Drumcondra
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Drumcondra I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Drumcondra
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Drumcondra Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Drumcondra
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Drumcondra .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Drumcondra
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Drumcondra The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Drumcondra
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "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) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Drumcondra "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Drumcondra
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan 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 Drumcondra Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Drumcondra
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Drumcondra 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 "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Drumcondra
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Drumcondra Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Drumcondra
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Drumcondra "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Drumcondra
