Louth Craftmark - Art gallery of contemporary Irish designs, contact details to order from artists, discussion forum and news.
Craftmark - This cross border network is the collaboration between Louth Craftmark and County Down Crafts. It was set up to promote and facilitate the development and understanding of local crafts.
The Cecilian Singers - Choral group based in Drogheda, featuring information, news, photos and contact details.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
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-- Albert Einstein Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "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) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Arts and Entertainment
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Arts and Entertainment Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Arts and Entertainment "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "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..." ( Arts and Entertainment
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach 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 A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Arts and Entertainment Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Arts and Entertainment
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Arts and Entertainment "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position 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 Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Arts and Entertainment Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Arts and Entertainment Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Arts and Entertainment
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "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 When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Arts and Entertainment I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Arts and Entertainment
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 "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Arts and Entertainment Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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" "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Arts and Entertainment "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Arts and Entertainment
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Arts and Entertainment Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Use your own best judgment at all times.
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