White Sands Hotel - Details of accommodation and facilities. Located in Portmarnock.
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Accommodation You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Accommodation
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 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 When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Accommodation Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Accommodation
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern 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 Accommodation Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous 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 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 Accommodation
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Accommodation "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Accommodation
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Accommodation I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Accommodation
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Accommodation If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Accommodation
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "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) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Accommodation
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Accommodation As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Accommodation
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Accommodation
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Accommodation Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "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) Accommodation
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Accommodation "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Accommodation
