Carrigeen House - Details of self-catering accommodation with information about the county.
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde 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 My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Kilmacthomas Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Kilmacthomas
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Kilmacthomas It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Kilmacthomas
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "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) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Kilmacthomas "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Kilmacthomas
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kilmacthomas If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Kilmacthomas
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Kilmacthomas It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Kilmacthomas
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') 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 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 "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Kilmacthomas No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Kilmacthomas
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Kilmacthomas No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Kilmacthomas
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner 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 "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Kilmacthomas "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Kilmacthomas
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 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Kilmacthomas "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Kilmacthomas
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Kilmacthomas "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Kilmacthomas
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Kilmacthomas "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Kilmacthomas
