Kenmare Chamber Choir - Formed in May 1993 as a small group dedicated to a high standard in performance. Many concerts have been given in and around Kenmare, raising funds for the Kerry hospice, Chernobyl childrens appeal and other charities.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Society and Culture I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Society and Culture
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Society and Culture University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Society and Culture
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Society and Culture Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Society and Culture
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Society and Culture In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Society and Culture
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Society and Culture
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Society and Culture If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov 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 Society and Culture
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein 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 "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) Society and Culture
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Society and Culture "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Society and Culture "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) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Society and Culture I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture
