Tralee Insight - Guide to Tralee including an accommodation guide.
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Accommodation What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Accommodation
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Accommodation The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Accommodation
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Accommodation The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Accommodation
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Accommodation Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Accommodation
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Accommodation For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Accommodation
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Accommodation Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Accommodation
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Accommodation Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Accommodation
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Accommodation He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Accommodation
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) Accommodation "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Accommodation
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 How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Accommodation I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Accommodation
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Accommodation You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Accommodation
