Seamus O'Kane - Official website of the bodhran maker and Irish traditional bodhran player. Includes photos, discography and the methods used in construction of the instrument.
The Grey Gables - Provides self catering and bed and breakfast accommodation. Includes prices, location and a guide to local activities.
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dungiven "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) 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? There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Dungiven
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Dungiven 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 Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Dungiven
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Dungiven "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Dungiven
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Dungiven Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dungiven
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Dungiven An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Dungiven
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) 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 Dungiven "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Dungiven
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Dungiven Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Dungiven
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Dungiven An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "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 Dungiven
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Dungiven The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Dungiven
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words 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 more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Dungiven "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 Dungiven
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Dungiven History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Dungiven
