Dundalk Employment Partnership - Helps long-term unemployed people to access education, training, jobs and self-employment.
TRPAG - Termonfeckin village rural preservation action group,locally elected representatives seeking the sensitive development and preservation of its village character, its agricultural roots and its heritage.
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Society and Culture Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber 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 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Society and Culture "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Society and Culture Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Society and Culture
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture 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 If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Society and Culture You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Society and Culture The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "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 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Society and Culture
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Society and Culture "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Society and Culture "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Society and Culture Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Society and Culture
