Castle View House - Bed and breakfast located on Carrig Island, close to Ballybunion golf course and the Tarbert car ferry.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Ballylongford There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Ballylongford
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Ballylongford 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 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 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Ballylongford
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Ballylongford Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Ballylongford
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ballylongford Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Ballylongford
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Ballylongford If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Ballylongford
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Ballylongford "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Ballylongford
"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) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Ballylongford Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Ballylongford
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Ballylongford Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "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 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Ballylongford
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "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) Ballylongford "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Ballylongford
"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) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ballylongford Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 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 Ballylongford
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Ballylongford We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Ballylongford
