Kilkenny College - Co-educational, secondary, boarding school, gives a prospectus, history and school news.
Carrigeen Primary School - Information on a boys-girls school located in Mooncoin, catering for children from 4 to 12 years.
Lavistown House - Farm in Kilkenny offering weekend cooking courses.
Mill Hill Past Pupils - Association of St Josephs College former secondary school, managed by the Mill Hill Missionaries.
KCAT Art & Study Centre - Offering art courses for people with and without special needs and a studio for artists with special needs.
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Education "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Education
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 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Education "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Education
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Education "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Education
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Education Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Education
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson 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 Education All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Education
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Education He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Education
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 There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Education Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel 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 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 Education
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown 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 test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Education "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Education
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Education "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Education
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Education My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Education
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "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') I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Education "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Education
