Abbeydorney - A small village in County Kerry. Includes genealogical information.
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Abbeydorney The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Abbeydorney
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Abbeydorney I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Abbeydorney
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Abbeydorney "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Abbeydorney
"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 must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Abbeydorney Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Abbeydorney
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Abbeydorney "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Abbeydorney
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger 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 If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Abbeydorney A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Abbeydorney
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Abbeydorney One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Abbeydorney
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) 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 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Abbeydorney The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Abbeydorney
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 Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Abbeydorney Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Abbeydorney
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 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Abbeydorney Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Abbeydorney
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Abbeydorney Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Abbeydorney
