Linsfort Guesthouse - Located near Boyle abbey and forest park. Details and photos of the accommodation included.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Boyle "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Boyle
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Boyle The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Boyle
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Boyle Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Boyle
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Boyle Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Boyle
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Boyle To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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) Boyle
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Boyle Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Boyle
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Boyle I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Boyle
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Boyle Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Boyle
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Boyle The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Boyle
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Boyle It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Boyle
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Boyle Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Boyle
