Shannonoaks Hotel - Details of accommodation, facilities offered for conferences and weddings plus contacts.
Olthort - Offering bed and breakfast plus self-catering accommodation.
Lake View House - Family run self catering accommodation on the banks of the River Shannon.
Portumna GAA Club - Hurling and football. Includes news, fixtures and results, match reports, photos, and history.
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Portumna Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Portumna
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Portumna Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Portumna
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Portumna Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Portumna
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Portumna The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 Portumna
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Portumna A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Portumna
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Portumna Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Portumna
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Portumna You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Portumna
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Portumna I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Portumna
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Portumna Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Portumna
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Portumna Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Portumna
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Portumna In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Portumna
