A to Z of Ancient Ireland - Extracts from the book 'Ancient Ireland - The Users' Guide' by Conan Kennedy, covering mythology and sacred sites.
Na Degad - Reenactment site portraying the history, equipment and battle tactics of warriors from Ireland's past.
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "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) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Ancient Ireland Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Ancient Ireland
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Ancient Ireland You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Ancient Ireland
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Ancient Ireland The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Ancient Ireland
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Ancient Ireland The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer 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 "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Ancient Ireland
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ancient Ireland Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant 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 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Ancient Ireland
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Ancient Ireland I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Ancient Ireland
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana 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 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Ancient Ireland Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Ancient Ireland
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Ancient Ireland I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "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 Ancient Ireland
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Ancient Ireland Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Ancient Ireland
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Ancient Ireland "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Ancient Ireland
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ancient Ireland "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Ancient Ireland
