Tipperary Libraries - Recent books of Tipperary interest, information on the library reserve scheme, and details about the branch network.
Ardfinnan - Information for people from Ardfinnan who are thinking of visiting or migrating to Australia.
The Parish of Ballina and Boher - Contemporary and historical information on the parish of Ballina / Boher in North Tipperary.
Tig Roy - Centre for Irish culture that provides classes and courses in traditional Irish music, language, and dancing.
Fethard at Home - Dedicated to emmigrants from Fethard and Killusty.
Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly - Centred on St. Patrick's Rock, Cashel, and comprising 46 parishes in Counties Tipperary and Limerick, the Catholic archdiocese provides details of its history, parishes, people and pastoral work.
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Society and Culture
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) 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 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Society and Culture Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Society and Culture
"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, "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Society and Culture Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Society and Culture
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Society and Culture Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Society and Culture
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Society and Culture "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Society and Culture
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Society and Culture "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Society and Culture
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Society and Culture When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Society and Culture
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Society and Culture
