Parish of Brackenstown, St. Cronan's - In vicinity of Swords in north Dublin has material on its history, personnel, organisations, schools and events, as well as photos of the church and links.
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Society and Culture "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Society and Culture
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Society and Culture "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 don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) 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 Society and Culture
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Society and Culture It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Society and Culture
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Society and Culture Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
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 True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Society and Culture He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Society and Culture
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain 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 "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Society and Culture Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Society and Culture
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 Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Society and Culture He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Society and Culture "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Society and Culture
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Society and Culture
