Glenamaddy - All about the small rural town of Glenamaddy, in North East Galway.
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Glenamaddy The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Glenamaddy
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Glenamaddy Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Glenamaddy
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Glenamaddy Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Glenamaddy
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Glenamaddy "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Glenamaddy
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley May you never leave your marriage alive. If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Glenamaddy "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glenamaddy
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Glenamaddy The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Glenamaddy
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Glenamaddy 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 Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Glenamaddy
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Glenamaddy "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Glenamaddy
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Glenamaddy "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Glenamaddy
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Glenamaddy "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Glenamaddy
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Glenamaddy I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Glenamaddy
