Dunlavin Arts Festival - Annual festival of the arts held on the third weekend of every June in the village of Dunlavin. Event include art exhibitions, music, drama, workshops, street theatre and other family entertainment.
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Arts and Entertainment When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Arts and Entertainment
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Arts and Entertainment A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb 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 Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Arts and Entertainment Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Arts and Entertainment
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Arts and Entertainment I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Arts and Entertainment
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Arts and Entertainment Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Arts and Entertainment "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Arts and Entertainment
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Arts and Entertainment "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) 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. History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C My other wife is beautiful. Arts and Entertainment
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Arts and Entertainment In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
