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Diocese of Ossory - This Catholic diocese, incorporating most of County Kilkenny and parts of Laois and Offaly, offers comprehensive parish profiles, with photos, and areas on history, social issues, vocations and youth, as well as news, images, links and material on diocesan committees and clergy/ religious.
Kilkenny and Carlow Circuit - Information on the two churches about service times, activities, beliefs and history with links, location and contact.
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Since its completion, it cost a fortune Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Leinster It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Leinster Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Leinster "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine Leinster Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries Leinster Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Leinster Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Leinster The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Leinster Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous Leinster For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Leinster When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Leinster Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Leinster Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov Leinster The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Leinster 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 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Leinster blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Leinster Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein Leinster "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Leinster Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Leinster
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