Celtic Castles - Directory of castles and castle accommodation throughout England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Castles "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Castles
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Castles Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho 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 Castles
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Castles Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Castles
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Castles A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West 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 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Castles
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Castles There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Castles
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 Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Castles You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Castles
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Castles In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Castles
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Castles This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Castles
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Castles Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Castles
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Castles My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett 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 "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Castles
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Castles "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Castles
