Raheny - Information on this village and its district on the outskirts of Dublin, with history, maps, images and a virtual tour, key features, a listing of local businesses and groups, churches, schools and links.
Raheny Village, for ex-St. Assamites - Personal narrative site on the district, with several pages of photos interspersed with notes, especially on St. Assam's boys school, for which several Confirmation sets are provided.
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Raheny "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Raheny
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Raheny If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Raheny
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Raheny What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Raheny
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Raheny Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Raheny
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Raheny Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Raheny
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Raheny Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Raheny
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Raheny The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Raheny
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Raheny "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Raheny
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Raheny The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Raheny
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Raheny My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 Raheny
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Raheny Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Raheny
