Avoca - A look at the village of Avoca with reference to Ballykissangel. Includes shopping for Irish related gifts.
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Avoca I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black 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 The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Avoca
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Avoca "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Avoca
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Avoca A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner 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, Avoca
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "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) Avoca Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Avoca
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Avoca "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Avoca
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Avoca Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Avoca
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein 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 As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Avoca The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Avoca
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor 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 Avoca Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Avoca
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sĝren Kierkegaard Avoca No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Avoca There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Avoca
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Avoca "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Avoca
