Ashfort Bed & Breakfast - Details of facilities and local amenities for this quiet family run B&B. Rates, location information and inquiry form provided.
Riverside Restaurant and B&B - Centrally located restaurant and B&B. Details of accommodation, location, restaurant menus and a selection of recipes.
Rockview House - Self-catering rental accommodation in a traditional cottage at Carracastle, Charlestown. Also apartment to rent. Details of accommodation, location, local amenities and entertainment.
Connaught Aero Club - Details of club activities and training opportunities offered at Knock airport.
Charlestown Tool Hire - Information on plant and tool hire including woodworking and garden tools.
Charlestown Fire Service - News, history, guestbook, images and links from this unit of Mayo County Fire Service.
Gavaghan Cycles Charlestown - Bicycle servicing and repairs, plus other services, from this long-established local business.
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Charlestown The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Charlestown
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Charlestown 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Charlestown
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Charlestown In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Charlestown
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Charlestown I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Charlestown
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Charlestown The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Charlestown
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Charlestown The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Charlestown
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Charlestown A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Charlestown
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Charlestown "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Charlestown
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Charlestown "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Charlestown
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Charlestown "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Charlestown
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Charlestown "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Charlestown
