American College - The American College in Dublin. Does intensive English classes.
DIAS - The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies is a publicly-funded independent centre for research in basic disciplines, including Celtic Studies, Theoretical Physics, and Cosmic Physics.
English In Dublin.ie - Information on the courses, teaching staff, accommodation plus online registration.
The Asian Institute - Offers Chinese language and cultural training. Course and contact information.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Specialised Instruction Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Specialised Instruction
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Specialised Instruction "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Specialised Instruction
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "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 It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "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 Specialised Instruction "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Specialised Instruction
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Specialised Instruction "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Specialised Instruction
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Specialised Instruction Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Specialised Instruction
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Specialised Instruction Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Specialised Instruction
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Specialised Instruction Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Specialised Instruction
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Specialised Instruction Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Specialised Instruction
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde 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" Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Specialised Instruction It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle 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 Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Specialised Instruction
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Specialised Instruction Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Specialised Instruction
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Specialised Instruction I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Specialised Instruction
