Irish Greyhound Board - Body responsible for the promotion and regulation of greyhound racing in Ireland.
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Greyhound Racing It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Greyhound Racing
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Greyhound Racing Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Greyhound Racing
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Greyhound Racing Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Greyhound Racing
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Greyhound Racing If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Greyhound Racing
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Greyhound Racing "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Greyhound Racing
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Greyhound Racing To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Greyhound Racing
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Greyhound Racing The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Greyhound Racing
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Greyhound Racing Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Greyhound Racing
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Greyhound Racing "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Greyhound Racing
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Greyhound Racing If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Greyhound Racing
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Greyhound Racing "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Greyhound Racing
