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Castle Leslie - Offering accommodation, in County Monaghan, just two hours from Dublin or one and a half hours from Belfast, restaurant and gourmet hampers.
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"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Accommodation Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Accommodation
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 Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Accommodation I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Accommodation If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Accommodation
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Accommodation I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Accommodation Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Accommodation
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) 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 Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Accommodation I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Accommodation
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Accommodation Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Accommodation
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Accommodation I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Accommodation
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Accommodation Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Accommodation
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Accommodation Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "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) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Accommodation
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Accommodation "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Accommodation
