Mayo and District Motorsport Club - Details of the club and the events, local and national, it organises, with news, images, contact details and links.
Tiernan Brothers Angling Advice Centre - Offering salmon and trout angling advice and services in Mayo, with gillie and boats available for lakes and rivers, details on these locations and services and photos.
Tour of Mayo - Details of an annual leisure cycling tour around the county, organised by Annagh Wheelers Cycling Club, with photos, reports and notes on other leisure cycling events.
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Recreation and Sports Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Recreation and Sports
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Recreation and Sports Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Recreation and Sports
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Recreation and Sports
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Recreation and Sports "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Recreation and Sports
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Recreation and Sports When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Recreation and Sports
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha 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 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Recreation and Sports "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Recreation and Sports
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Recreation and Sports In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Recreation and Sports
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Recreation and Sports Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Recreation and Sports
