St. Fintain's National School, Mountrath. - Developed by the sixth class internet team this site includes displays of artwork, school news, school sports and contact information.
St. Francis School - Written and devised by the sixth class internet team, includes photos, school mission statement, curriculum information and contact details.
Heywood Community School, Ballinakil - Contains history and philosophy the school, contact details, course and extracurricular activity information.
St.Paul's Primary School, Portlaoise. - Has info about school ethos, rules, objectives, sports activities. Also includes a photo gallery, some local history and admissions details.
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Education There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright 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
remains fa A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Education
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Education America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Education
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Education All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Education
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Education Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Education
"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) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Education Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Education
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "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 "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Education I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "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 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Education There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Education
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Education Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Education
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Education I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Education
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i 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) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Education Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Education
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Education If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Education
