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St. Brigid's Parish, Killester - North Dublin parish has a listing of parish personnel, details of services, music, publications, a short history, photos and a note on the relic of St. Brigid held in its church.
Killester Basketball Club - History, teams, social calendar, fixtures and results, photographs, links and contact details.
Willows Consulting - Offering web design, maintenance, hosting, ecommerce and training services. Reference sites and contact details.
Killester College - Provides information on full-time, part-time and evening courses offered, facilities, application forms, fees, news and contact details.
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton Killester Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Killester "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Killester I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Killester Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Killester 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 Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Killester "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) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates Killester May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Killester In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) 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 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Killester Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Killester You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Killester We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Killester Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Killester We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Killester Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Killester "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Killester "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Killester Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Killester If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Killester "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates 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 Killester A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Killester When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Killester
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