Irish Grand Hotel - Details of location, accommodation and activities plus rates. Located at Moate.
Castledaly Manor - Moate - Bed and breakfast on a 37-acre estate near Athlone. The 220 year old manor house offers 22 guest rooms with private baths.
Woodville House Restaurant - An early 19th Century house hotel and restaurant, located in a charming woodland area near Gaybrook about five miles from Mullingar.
Ráthanúisce, Bunbrosna - Accommodation located near the river Shannon and local lakes. Ideal for fishing.
Hodson Bay Hotel - Details of the hotel and activities; including conference facilities and leisure centre.
Bennett's Turnpikelodge - Details of bed and breakfast accommodation, rates and contact details.
Mornington House.com - Details of accommodation, horse-riding and fishing facilities plus contact details, history and photographs.
The Bastion - Information on bed and breakfast accommodation in Athlone, includes things to do in the area, location and booking details.
Ireland-Ac.com - Accommodation details for the area and links.
Shannonside house - Bed and breakfast offering food and services in relation to fishing and area information. Private car parking.
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Accommodation "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Accommodation
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Accommodation Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Accommodation
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Accommodation Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Accommodation
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous 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 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Accommodation 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 They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Accommodation 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 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Accommodation
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Accommodation I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Accommodation
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Accommodation I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Accommodation
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Accommodation The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Accommodation
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Accommodation The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Accommodation
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Accommodation May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Accommodation
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Accommodation If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Accommodation
