Portlaoise Rugby Club - One page site describing the club, a rundown of the 2000/2001 season and contact information.
Cuman na mbunscol Laoise - Primary schools GAA football association. Offers latest information updated weekly, including results.
Vicarstown Community Hall - Has information about activities as well as pictures and community news.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Recreation and Sports
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Recreation and Sports Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Recreation and Sports
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. 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 It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Recreation and Sports "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Recreation and Sports
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
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"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
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-- David Bissonette Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Recreation and Sports "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Recreation and Sports "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Recreation and Sports
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Recreation and Sports As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) 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." ( Recreation and Sports
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun 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 I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Recreation and Sports
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. 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 "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Recreation and Sports "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "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) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Recreation and Sports Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Recreation and Sports
