Celtic Wayfarers - Tours to ancient sacred sites. Explore Celtic spirituality in Ireland's mythological landscape. Features profile, year's tour details, costs and articles.
Storytelling Journey to the West of Ireland - Small group travel to explore stories, history, legends, mythology of the Celtic people in Ireland, with details on some locations.
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Folklore and Mythology Tours The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
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Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Folklore and Mythology Tours "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Folklore and Mythology Tours
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince 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. Folklore and Mythology Tours "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Folklore and Mythology Tours
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Folklore and Mythology Tours 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 When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Folklore and Mythology Tours
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Folklore and Mythology Tours "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Folklore and Mythology Tours This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Folklore and Mythology Tours
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Folklore and Mythology Tours A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Folklore and Mythology Tours
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Folklore and Mythology Tours "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "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 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Folklore and Mythology Tours
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Folklore and Mythology Tours Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Folklore and Mythology Tours
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Folklore and Mythology Tours "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Folklore and Mythology Tours
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Folklore and Mythology Tours A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Folklore and Mythology Tours
