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Lullymore Nurseries - Wholesale nursery. Information includes details of plants which originated at Lullymore.

Peonypassions - Mail order nursery specialising in Chinese tree peonies.

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 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 Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Rathangan I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre Rathangan "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Rathangan It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. 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(Steve Roland Prefontaine) Rathangan Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Rathangan "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill Rathangan Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Rathangan "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf Rathangan Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Rathangan If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Rathangan "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Rathangan Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Rathangan War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Rathangan I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Rathangan "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Rathangan Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Rathangan Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer Rathangan I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance Rathangan To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Rathangan My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Rathangan Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder Rathangan
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