Meath County Development Board - Key economic, social and cultural development agency explains its mission, strategy and operations, with notes on specific projects and contact details.
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When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Meath I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Meath
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Meath If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Meath
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Meath The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Meath
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Meath Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Meath
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Meath What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Meath
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Meath Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Meath
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Meath Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Meath
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Meath "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Meath
"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) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Meath You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Meath
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Meath Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Meath
"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) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Meath 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 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Meath
