The Gleann Community's Web Site - Gleann is a small Parish situated about 15 miles south of Sligo City. This site contains historical information, news, and links related to the Gleann area.
The Parish of Ballymote - Weekly update of social items, history, and heritage, from a small town parish of Ballymote in Co. Sligo.
Lavally - Lavally is the home of the O'Brien family who have lived in the area for over 200 years. This site contains a lot of Java making it difficult to load on old machines.
Collooney (Kilvarnet) Parish - This is a rural parish in the diocese of Achonry. Contains parish location, information, and news.
SligoZone - Aine Chambers shares the scenic charms, the people, the history, and the enchanting atmosphere of North Connacht.
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger 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. Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "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 Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Society and Culture If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 Society and Culture "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Society and Culture
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Society and Culture How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Society and Culture
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones 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
disg Society and Culture Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Society and Culture
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Society and Culture It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Society and Culture
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Society and Culture Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Society and Culture
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Society and Culture "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Society and Culture
