Ballindoon House - Mansion for functions, weddings and holidays. Set on 90 acres, includes accommodation and function information.
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 "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Accommodation Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Accommodation
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Accommodation Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Accommodation
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Accommodation It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
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 Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Accommodation
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Accommodation "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Accommodation
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Accommodation "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "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 Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Accommodation
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Accommodation "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Accommodation
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) 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) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Accommodation Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Accommodation
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Accommodation Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Accommodation
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Accommodation Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Accommodation
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James 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 "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Accommodation We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Accommodation
