The Irish Famine, - An interpretation of the famine years 1845 to 1851.
Views of the Famine - More than 100 newspaper engravings from the Irish famine of 1846-1850, many with accompanying newspaper texts.
Click2Disasters - The Great Hunger - Offers detailed history of the Irish Potato Famine, from potato blight to mass exodus, with links to primary sources.
Letter to Lord Russell - An etext of an 1847 book concerning the crisis of famine in Ireland.
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The Great Famine Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The Great Famine
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Great Famine Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and The Great Famine
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The Great Famine Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The Great Famine
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde The Great Famine "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The Great Famine
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The Great Famine The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The Great Famine
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The Great Famine Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The Great Famine
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The Great Famine "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone 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 The Great Famine
"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 monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The Great Famine The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The Great Famine
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The Great Famine Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The Great Famine
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 Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The Great Famine If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The Great Famine
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren The Great Famine Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The Great Famine
