Lurgan College - Information on the history of the school along with details of the departments clubs and societies.
Wild-Live - Nature-awareness and outdoor tracking school with photos and information of weekend and day-programs.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Education Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana 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 Education
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Education "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "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) Education
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Education To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Education your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Education Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Education
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Education If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Education
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Education Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Education
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 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Education The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Education
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Education Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Education "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Education
