Clare Island Ferry Company - Details of schedules and rates for this service connecting Clare Island with Louisburgh. Also charter hire services.
Corduff Travel - Ballina and Westport-based family-run coach operator providing bus hire, excursions and scheduled services. Includes timetable of weekend services between major western towns.
Knock International Airport - Official site for this international airport offers details of scheduled and charter flights, cargo handling and terminal facilities, and local tourism information.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Transport You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Transport
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Transport When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Transport
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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Transport During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Transport
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Transport Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Transport
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transport If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Transport
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Transport Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Transport
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Transport Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Transport
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Transport A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw 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 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Transport
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Transport "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Transport
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "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) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Transport The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Transport
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Transport "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Transport
