Scoil Mhuire Ballyboden - Local co-ed primary school, web site features contact details, information on up-coming events, pupil of the week and a pupil's corner.
Youthreach Rathfarnham - Community group offering second-chance education and training to teenagers. Web site offers information about the group and contact details.
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Education Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Education
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 Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Education Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "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) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Education
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Education Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Education
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Education If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Education "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based 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 Education
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Marriage is a rest period between romances. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Education There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Education
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi 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 "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) Education We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Education
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Education
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Education
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Education Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Education
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Education "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "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) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Education
