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Swim Ireland - The national governing body for swimming outlines its structures and rules, provides qualifying times, calendars and results for competitions, information on swimmers and their welfare, material for teachers and details of and for clubs.
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Swimming and Diving "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Swimming and Diving Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Swimming and Diving This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Swimming and Diving My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France >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 The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch Swimming and Diving "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Swimming and Diving The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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." Swimming and Diving 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 To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Swimming and Diving Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau 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 And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the Swimming and Diving I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Swimming and Diving Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Swimming and Diving I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Swimming and Diving Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman Swimming and Diving "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Swimming and Diving Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Swimming and Diving A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Swimming and Diving Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Swimming and Diving There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Swimming and Diving I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "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 Swimming and Diving The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Swimming and Diving "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 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Swimming and Diving Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Swimming and Diving
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