Clontuskert - Information on the little rural village of Clontuskert in South East Galway.
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Clontuskert Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clontuskert
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Clontuskert A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Clontuskert
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- 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 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Clontuskert To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Clontuskert
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Clontuskert Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Clontuskert
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Clontuskert There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Clontuskert
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clontuskert The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Clontuskert
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Clontuskert A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Clontuskert
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "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) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Clontuskert There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Clontuskert
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Clontuskert Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) 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 Clontuskert
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Clontuskert "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Clontuskert
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Clontuskert "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Clontuskert
