1169 And Counting - Features the author's comments on political and historical happenings.
Crime in Ireland - Chronicles the rising crime rate in Ireland and government failure to deal with the problem.
The Open Forum - Articles on the issue of immigration into Ireland with the view that immigration and multiculturalism are not always for the good.
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Issues Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden 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 Issues
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Issues "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Issues
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford 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 Issues The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Issues
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Issues If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Issues
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Issues 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 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Issues
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Issues "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Issues
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "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 Issues Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Issues
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx 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 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Issues Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Issues
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Issues The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Issues
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Issues The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Issues
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Issues A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Issues
