Lismore - Information on the heritage town of Lismore.
Northgrove - Details of bed and breakfast accommodation, location, activities and contact information.
Pinetree House - Details of bed and breakfast accommodation, location and contact information.
Ballyrafter House Hotel - - Salmon fishing and a country house on the Blackwater River. Restaurant and licensed pub.
Madden Estate Agents - Offering residential and commercial property for sale and letting.
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Lismore "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Lismore
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Lismore 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 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Lismore
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,
the ugl Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Lismore The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Lismore
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Lismore The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Lismore
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison What's new? Most of my wife. Lismore "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Lismore
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Lismore I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Lismore
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Lismore "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Lismore
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Lismore To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lismore
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lismore The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Lismore
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Lismore "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Lismore
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "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) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Lismore A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Lismore
