Longford Genealogy Research - Undertakes research into the histories of families who were resident in County Longford before 1900.
Longford Tidy Towns - An environmental site detailing the activities of the group.
Longford County Childcare - Promoting the development and delivery of high quality childcare services and facilities in the county. Includes information for parents and childcare workers.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Society and Culture Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Society and Culture
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture 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 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "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) Society and Culture
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Society and Culture
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Society and Culture Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Society and Culture
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "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 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Society and Culture The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Society and Culture
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Society and Culture
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Society and Culture Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Society and Culture Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Society and Culture
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Society and Culture Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Society and Culture
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Society and Culture Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Society and Culture
