Laois Tourism - Guide to facilities, activities and accommodation in the county from Laois Tourism.
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"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Travel and Tourism "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Travel and Tourism
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Travel and Tourism When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Travel and Tourism
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 Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Travel and Tourism "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Travel and Tourism The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Travel and Tourism
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Travel and Tourism At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Travel and Tourism
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Travel and Tourism
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Travel and Tourism
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Travel and Tourism In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) 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 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism
