Valley Boats - Offering canal holidays based on the river Barrow at Graignamanagh in South Eastern Ireland.
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Travel and Tourism "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Travel and Tourism "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Travel and Tourism
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Travel and Tourism "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Travel and Tourism
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Travel and Tourism
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Travel and Tourism
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "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 "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Travel and Tourism A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Travel and Tourism "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Travel and Tourism
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Travel and Tourism
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Travel and Tourism What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Travel and Tourism
