Achill Ireland - Tourism and visitors guide to the island.
Achill Tourism - Information on accommodation, travel, events, activities, restaurants and pubs.
Achill Tours - Bus tour of Achill Island, Co Mayo, also suggestions for dining and accommodation.
Lady Clare - Deep sea angling aboard a fully licensed vessel. Parties of all sizes catered for.
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
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-- Robert Frost Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Travel and Tourism
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-- Anonymous A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Travel and Tourism
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Guy Almes I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
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life Travel and Tourism A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
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"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
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-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
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-- Anon "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Travel and Tourism Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Travel and Tourism
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Travel and Tourism
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Travel and Tourism
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Travel and Tourism To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Travel and Tourism A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Travel and Tourism
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Travel and Tourism "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Travel and Tourism He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West 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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
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-- Gamaliel Bradford In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
