Carrick on Shannon. - Includes historical walking tour of the town, information on cruising and fishing the river Shannon and an article on the role of the local hospital as a workhouse during the famine.
Loftus Insurance Brokers - Independent insurance brokers, offers their range of insurances and services.
Riverside House - Gives details of the newly refurbished self catering holiday home.
Chamber of Commerce - Provides business and tourist information. Includes a member index and a profile of the town.
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Carrick on Shannon A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Carrick on Shannon
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain 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 "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Carrick on Shannon 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 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Carrick on Shannon
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Carrick on Shannon If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Carrick on Shannon
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Carrick on Shannon Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Carrick on Shannon
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Carrick on Shannon Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Carrick on Shannon
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Carrick on Shannon Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Carrick on Shannon
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb 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 Carrick on Shannon ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Carrick on Shannon
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Carrick on Shannon "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Carrick on Shannon
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "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 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Carrick on Shannon Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Carrick on Shannon
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Carrick on Shannon "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Carrick on Shannon
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Carrick on Shannon If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Carrick on Shannon
