Killarney National Park - Introduction, history, general information and details of educational programmes.
Muckross House and Gardens - Information on historic house and gardens set in Killarney National Park, includes information on workshops and 1920's style working farm.
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Killarney National Park Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Killarney National Park
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Killarney National Park If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Killarney National Park
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Killarney National Park What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Killarney National Park
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Killarney National Park "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Killarney National Park
"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 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Killarney National Park "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Killarney National Park
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Killarney National Park "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Killarney National Park
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Killarney National Park "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Killarney National Park
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Killarney National Park 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 There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Killarney National Park
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Killarney National Park "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
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Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Killarney National Park 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 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Killarney National Park
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Killarney National Park "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 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Killarney National Park
