Mayo County Council - Official site for the local government of County Mayo.
Mayo Live - Local guide and community directory of businesses.
Ireland's Lake District - Entertainment, news, sport and business in counties Galway and Mayo.
Mayo on the Move - A wide-ranging directory and reference source for the county.
Mayo Guide from Mayo County Council - Official local government site lists resources for the county's visitor attractions, events, transport and accommodation.
Mayo Energy Agency Official Website - Body promoting energy efficiency, energy conservation and renewable energy within the county. Includes details of services, location, energy news, energy saving tips and childrens educational games.
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Mayo Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Mayo
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (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 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Mayo Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Mayo
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Mayo The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Mayo
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Mayo To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Mayo
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Mayo Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Mayo
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Mayo When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mayo
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Mayo You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Mayo
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Mayo It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mayo
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "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) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Mayo Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Mayo
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Mayo It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Mayo
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley 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 Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels 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 Mayo I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils 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 Mayo
