Gaelige Ranganna - A short list of Irish language classes worldwide.
Coláiste na - Cúrsaà Samhraidh agus Scoil na Leanaà i nGaeltacht na Rinne. Summer Courses and Irish-language primary boarding school for boys and girls in Ring Gaeltacht.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Education 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. I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Education
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Education Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Education
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Education "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Education
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Education Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Education
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Education The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Education I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Education
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Education "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Education
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Education Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Education
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Education When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Education
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Education To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Education
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake 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 He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Education "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Education
