Timber Stables Ireland - Manufacturers of timber stables with product photos and specifications.
Michael Rogers - Wood sculptor with gallery and contact information.
Castlewellan - A history in prose, verse and pictures of the area over the last century.
Millvale Animal Sanctuary - Rescues and rehomes abandoned and abused animals. Includes photos of animals currently in care.
Castlewellan Holiday Week - Annual Christian gathering with photos, timetable and booking information.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Castlewellan Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) 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 Castlewellan
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Castlewellan If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Castlewellan
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Castlewellan "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Castlewellan
"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 most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Castlewellan "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Castlewellan
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Castlewellan "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Castlewellan
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Castlewellan I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Castlewellan
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Castlewellan I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "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) Castlewellan
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Castlewellan If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Castlewellan
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Castlewellan You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Castlewellan
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Castlewellan Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Castlewellan
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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Castlewellan The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Castlewellan
