The Blasket Islands: Next Parish America - Illustrated book about the history, life, traditions and customs of an isolated community that has now disappeared from O'Brien Press.
Blasket Islands - Autobiography and storytelling plus books on history and research.
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-- Brendan Hills If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "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 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Blaskets No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Blaskets
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Blaskets "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Blaskets
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "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) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Blaskets There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Blaskets
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Blaskets If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Blaskets
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Blaskets I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Blaskets
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Blaskets A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blaskets
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Blaskets Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Blaskets
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Blaskets My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Blaskets
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Blaskets "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Blaskets
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Blaskets The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth 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 When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Blaskets
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Blaskets I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest 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 My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Blaskets
