Derrypark Lodge - Holiday cottages and angling centre set on Lough Mask. Details of accommodation, rates, fishing and location.
Tourmakeady - Guide to the area, a Gaeltacht (Irish speaking area) situated between Lough Mask and the Partry Mountains. Extensive local information for both the community and visitors.
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Tourmakeady Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Tourmakeady
Man and wife make one fool. In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Tourmakeady "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Tourmakeady
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Tourmakeady Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Tourmakeady
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Tourmakeady In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tourmakeady
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Tourmakeady The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Tourmakeady
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Man and wife make one fool. Tourmakeady I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Tourmakeady
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Tourmakeady Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Tourmakeady
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Tourmakeady We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Tourmakeady
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi 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 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 Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Tourmakeady The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Tourmakeady
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Tourmakeady It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Tourmakeady
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Tourmakeady A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Tourmakeady
