Sligo Internet Users Group - Group which meets in the Clarence Hotel on the first Tuesday of each month. Links to their homepages and Ireland On Line Pages
The Works - Personal computer training, business support, and professional presentation of documents. A member of Telework Ireland.
Vision Communications - A small, privately held company specialising in IT consultancy in the fields of database design & implementation, Windows and Microsoft applications customisation and web design and training.
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Computers and Internet "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Computers and Internet
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Computers and Internet "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Computers and Internet
"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) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Computers and Internet All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Computers and Internet
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain 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 Computers and Internet 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 Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Computers and Internet
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Computers and Internet It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Computers and Internet
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers and Internet "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Computers and Internet "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Computers and Internet
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis 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 Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Computers and Internet "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Computers and Internet
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Computers and Internet Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Computers and Internet
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Computers and Internet Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Computers and Internet
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Computers and Internet Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Computers and Internet
