Clare Island Official site - Information on life on the island along with tourism resources, heritage and history, and travel details.
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Clare Island "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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 Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Clare Island
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clare Island "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Clare Island
"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) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Clare Island For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Clare Island
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Clare Island "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Clare Island
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Clare Island An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin 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 Clare Island
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Clare Island "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Clare Island
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Clare Island What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Clare Island
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Clare Island The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Clare Island The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Clare Island
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Clare Island There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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 Clare Island
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Clare Island What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Clare Island
