ALIA Sailing Pages - Resources of interest to Day/Coastal Skipper students. Weather and tide resources. Images of cruises on the South West coast of Ireland.
Glenans Sailing in Ireland - Information about a voluntary non-profit making club offering sailing courses all levels. Located Baltimore, Cork and Collanmore Island, Mayo.
Irish Laser Association - An information service for members of the Irish Laser Association and all those interested in Laser sailing.
Sailing Ireland - Sailing holidays in and around Ireland. Charter and waterways information, sailing schools and services.
Irish RS Class Association - Interest group for RS Dinghy Class (RS200 and RS400 are modern asymmetric racing dinghys) offers background information, contacts, news, technical notes, photos, and discussion and account facilities.
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Experience teaches only the teachable.
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-- English Professor, Ohio University It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Boating and Sailing
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
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-- Kenny Ausubel Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Boating and Sailing It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
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-- Dave Barry When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Boating and Sailing
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
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certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
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-- Marcel Achard Boating and Sailing
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly 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 The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud What's new? Most of my wife. Boating and Sailing
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Boating and Sailing There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Boating and Sailing
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Boating and Sailing The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot 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 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Boating and Sailing
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Boating and Sailing My other wife is beautiful. We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Boating and Sailing
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Boating and Sailing Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Boating and Sailing
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
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-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Boating and Sailing If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Boating and Sailing
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Boating and Sailing It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Boating and Sailing
