The Benwiskin Centre. - Budget hostel accommodation in North Sligo, a short distance from the sea and mountains. Many activities nearby.
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley 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. You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Ballintrillick "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Ballintrillick
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Ballintrillick The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Ballintrillick
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Ballintrillick Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Ballintrillick
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Ballintrillick Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Ballintrillick
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Ballintrillick Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Ballintrillick
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Ballintrillick Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Ballintrillick
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Ballintrillick Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Ballintrillick Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron 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 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Ballintrillick
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Ballintrillick Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ballintrillick
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Ballintrillick I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Ballintrillick The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Ballintrillick
