County Tipperary Ryan Youth Orchestra - Caters to young musicians from all over County Tipperary and neighbouring counties. Site provides an event schedule, history, list of members, and photographs.
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Arts and Entertainment "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Arts and Entertainment
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Arts and Entertainment
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland 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 best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Arts and Entertainment In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Arts and Entertainment
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers 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 Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Arts and Entertainment "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Arts and Entertainment
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain 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 would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Arts and Entertainment Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Arts and Entertainment
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Arts and Entertainment
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Arts and Entertainment We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Arts and Entertainment
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Arts and Entertainment Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Arts and Entertainment
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Arts and Entertainment Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly 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 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Arts and Entertainment "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Arts and Entertainment
