Eamon de Valera - Biographical article on the Irish revolutionary and statesman.
Eamon de Valera and the Fianna Fail - Examines the background to, and events surrounding, the Irish General Election of 1932, which brought to power de Valera and his political party, Fianna Fail.
Eamon de Valera - Pictures of the grave in Glasnevin Cemetery, biography noting his political and legal exploits, cemetery information, and interactive visitor comments from Find A Grave.
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. de Valera, Eamon Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates de Valera, Eamon
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) de Valera, Eamon "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson de Valera, Eamon
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 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke de Valera, Eamon You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson de Valera, Eamon
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly de Valera, Eamon An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) de Valera, Eamon
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards de Valera, Eamon If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde de Valera, Eamon
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) de Valera, Eamon The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins de Valera, Eamon
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan de Valera, Eamon I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is de Valera, Eamon
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. de Valera, Eamon I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley de Valera, Eamon
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. 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 The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali de Valera, Eamon "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) de Valera, Eamon
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken de Valera, Eamon The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) de Valera, Eamon
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb de Valera, Eamon "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie de Valera, Eamon
