Kelly Galway Oysters - Native Irish oysters. Profile, information about oysters, price list and shopping cart.
Moran's Oyster Cottage - Restaurant known for its seafood, open all year round. Also gives information on the Galway Oyster Festival.
Kilcolgan Castle - Details of the building and location, accommodation, local activities, testimonials and contact information.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Kilcolgan "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kilcolgan
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Kilcolgan To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Kilcolgan
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Kilcolgan I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Kilcolgan
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Kilcolgan "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) 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 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Kilcolgan
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kilcolgan "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Kilcolgan
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Kilcolgan Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Kilcolgan
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle 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 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kilcolgan "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Kilcolgan
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea 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 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Kilcolgan What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Kilcolgan
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Kilcolgan Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Kilcolgan
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley 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. "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) 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 Kilcolgan The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kilcolgan
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht 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 As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Kilcolgan "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Kilcolgan
