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Roadside Memorials - Photographs and location details of some memorials erected on roadside verges commemorating people who were killed in road accidents.
Djouce Hike - Photos taken during a hike up Djouce with the Bray Strollers in June 2001.
Photopower Images - Images of Ireland taken by freelance photographer from dublin.
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Irish Posters - View pictures of Ireland, Dublin city landmarks and statues photo gallery, Irish posters and historical images of Dublin city in the 19th century.
A lovely World: Ireland - 50 photos of Ireland (Connemara, Dublin, Dingle, Kerry, Kilkenny, Clonmacnoise).
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Photos For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Photos
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Photos What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Photos
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Photos Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Photos
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Photos cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Photos
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Photos Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Photos
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Photos Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Photos "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Photos
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Photos "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Photos
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Photos The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Photos
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Photos Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "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 The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Photos
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins 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 "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 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Photos "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Photos
