Steppingstone - Bed and breakfast accommodation and cafe at Glencar, on the Kerry Way. Includes map, rates, sample menus, and information about hiking and angling.
Lakefield House - Old world cottage and 2 spacious apartments in 4 acres of private gardens at the shore of Caragh Lake.
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Glencar When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Glencar
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Glencar "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Glencar
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Glencar When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Glencar
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Glencar I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Glencar
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Glencar A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Glencar
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Glencar "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Glencar
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Glencar Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Glencar
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch 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 Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Glencar If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Glencar
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "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) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Glencar Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Glencar
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Glencar The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin 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 It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Glencar
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Glencar The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Glencar
