Irish Castles - Information on a selection of castles and country estates.
Irish Castle Hotels - Selection of Irish castles now operating as luxury hotels. Includes the castles at Dromoland, Ashford, Waterford, Kilkea and Belleek.
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Castles "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Castles
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Castles The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Castles
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Castles "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Castles
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Castles If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Castles
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Castles When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Castles
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Castles You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Castles
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Castles Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Castles
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Castles Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Castles
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Castles "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Castles
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Castles In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Castles
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Castles "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
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