Planning Architecture Design Database Ireland - PADDI is a searchable bibliographic database on all aspects of the built environment and environmental planning in Ireland, north and south.
Ulster Architectural Heritage Society - Promotes the appreciation and conservation of architecture from the prehistoric to the present in the nine counties of Ulster.
The National Trust Northern Ireland - Descriptions and visitor information for the National Trust's historic houses, gardens, scenic coastal walks, countryside estates, beaches and industrial heritage properties.
Hearth - Committee for the restoration of historic buildings which are at risk of dereliction or loss. Provides details of current projects, news and information on how to apply for tenancy of completed buildings.
Houses and Gardens of Ireland - Association of owners and operators of great Irish houses and gardens, providing clickable mapping, news and property details, with details of country house accommodation also presented.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. What's new? Most of my wife. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Architecture If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Architecture
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Architecture "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Architecture
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Architecture An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Architecture
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Architecture Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Architecture
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w 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 "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Architecture "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Architecture
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Architecture We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Architecture
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Architecture "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) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Architecture
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Architecture Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Architecture
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Architecture "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Architecture
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Architecture To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Architecture
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Architecture Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Architecture
