QUOTE ARCHIVE
The following is a list of all the previous
quotes used on the site (in chronological order, latest first):
“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best”
(Frank Zappa, 1940 – 1993)
Submitted by Boo Radley
"There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong”
(Daniel O’Connell, 1776 – 1847)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge"
(Thomas Carlyle)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
Law of the Garbage Truck
"One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off
for the airport. We were driving in the
right lane when suddenly a black car jumped
out of a parking space right in front of us.
My taxi driver slammed on his brakes,
skidded, and missed the other car by just
inches! The driver of the other car whipped
his head around and started yelling at us.
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the
guy. And I mean, he was really friendly. So
I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy
almost ruined your car and sent us to the
hospital!' This is when my taxi driver
taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the
Garbage Truck.' He explained that many
people are like garbage trucks. They run
around full of garbage, full of frustration,
full of anger, and full of disappointment.
As their garbage piles up, they need a place
to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on
you. Don't take it personally. Just smile,
wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't
take their garbage and spread it to other
people at work, at home, or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do
not let garbage trucks take over their day.
Life's too short to wake up in the morning
with regrets, so ... Love the people who
treat you right. Pray for the ones who
don't. Life is ten percent what you make it
and ninety percent how you take it!
Have a garbage-free day!”
Submitted by Sean O’Cuinn, Dublin
"Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly”
(Edward Albee)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,
by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn"
(Dr Samuel Johnson)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
(Confucius)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
"In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea"
(John Osborne, Playwright 1929-1994)
Submitted by Jack Bonner, Myrtle Beach, USA
"If
all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work"
(William Shakespeare, from Hamlet)
Submitted by Elizabeth Duffy, Ireland
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
(Colin Luther Powell, 65th US Sec. of State)
Submitted by Diana Duffy, Ireland
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...
just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald from page1 of The Great Gatsby)
Submitted by Elizabeth Duffy, Ireland
The world is not conclusion:
A species stands beyond,
Invisible, as music,
but positive, as sound.
(Emily Dickinson)
Submitted by J. V. Bonner, Myrtle Beach
Reflections (on the passing of a close friend)
When I come to the end of the road
and the Sun has set for me
I want no tears in a gloom filled room,
Why cry for a soul set free?
Miss me a little but not for long
and not with your head bowed low
Remember the love we once shared
Miss me - but let me go.
For this a journey we all must take
And each must go alone,
Its all a part of the Master's plan
A step on the road to home
When you are lonely and sick of heart
go to the friends we know
And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds
Miss me -but let me go
(Anonymous
as read by Most Reverend Jim Moriarity)
Submitted by J. V. Bonner, Myrtle Beach
"The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another."
(Samuel Johnson 1709-1784)
Submitted by Sheila Grassick, Ireland
"We should measure life not by the number of breaths we take,
but by the number of moments that take our breath away"
(Unknown)
Submitted by Eamonn Hanlon, Saudi Arabia
"Uncertainty and Expectation are the joys of life"
(William Congreve. English playwright & poet 1670-1729)
Submitted by Diana Duffy, Ireland
"Time Discloses All"
(Unknown)
Submitted by Diana Duffy, Ireland
"No condition is permanent"
(Unknown)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship."
(Buddha)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
"Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed."
(Corita Kent, American artist, 1918 - 1986)
Submitted by Diana Duffy,
Ireland
"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
(Niels Bohr, Danish physicist 1885 - 1962)
Submitted by The Editor,
Ireland
"There are people who have money and people who are rich".
(Coco Chanel)
Submitted by Elizabeth Duffy, Ireland
"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail".
(John Donne)
Submitted by The Editor,
Ireland
"In the quiet of the evening,
when all that grows becomes as lace
against the setting sun....
I am thankful for another beautiful day."
Submitted by Diana Duffy, Ireland
A RECTOR'S MEMORY
(1st Verse)
The, Gods that are wiser than Learning
But kinder than Life have made sure
No mortal may boast in the morning
That even will find him secure.
With naught for fresh faith or new trial,
With little unsoiled or unsold,
Can the shadow go back on the dial,
Or a new world be given for the old?
But he knows not that time shall awaken,
As he knows not what tide shall lay bare,
The heart of a man to be taken --
Taken and changed unaware.
(Rudyard Kipling)
Submitted by Vincent Caffrey, Ireland
Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful" and sitting in the shade.
(Rudyard Kipling)
Submitted by Diana Duffy, Ireland
Alice came to a fork in the road,
"Which road do I take", she asked.
"Where do you want to go? responded the cat.
"I don't know", Alice answered.
"Then" said the cat "it doesn't matter"
"Begin at the beginning, and then go on till you come to the end; then stop."
(from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
"He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible"
(James Joyce)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
'Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry
about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own'
(The Holy Bible
)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
'In crisis, there exists opportunity'
(Ancient Chinese Proverb )
Submitted by Jack Bonner Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
"A friend in need is a friend indeed"
(Old Proverb)
Submitted by Editor, Ireland
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown.
The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
(F. Schiller)
Submitted by Editor, Ireland
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes
most of which never happened.
(Michel de Montaigne: France 1533 - 1592)
Submitted by Robert Duffy, Ireland
The glory
Is not in never failing,
But in rising every time
You fall.
(Chinese proverb)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
THE NAIL
It lay in the cold ashes,
Long and black, a tapered point
Hammered and shaped on a smithy anvil.
Heavy as iron.
Ancient.
Maybe the kind used to crucify Jesus?
Suffering Jesus!
Submitted by Editor, Ireland.
I expect to pass through life but once.
If therefore, there be any kindness I can show,
or any good thing I can do to any fellow being,
let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it,
as I shall not pass this way again.
(William Penn)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
Greasy Joan
"When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepard blows his nail
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail;
When blood is nipt and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl
Tuwhoo! Tuwit! Tuwhoo! A merry note!
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw;
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl
Then nightly sings the staring owl
(Shakespeare)
Submitted by the editor, Ireland
"Enjoy when you can
and endure when you must”
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Submitted by the editor, Ireland
"Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey.
It reminds us to cherish each moment,
because it will never come again"
(from Startrek - Generations)
"Times moves in one direction only
No Condition is Permanent"
(Original unknown)
Submitted by Elizabeth Duffy, Ireland
"The clock of life is wound but once
And no man has the power
To tell just where the hands will stop,
At late or early hour.
To lose one's wealth is sad indeed,
To lose one's health is more.
To lose one's soul is such a loss
As no man can restore.
The present only is our own.
Live, love, toil with a will.
Place no faith in 'tomorrow'
For the clock may then be still.
(Robert H Smith)
Submitted by Sean O'Cuinn, Ireland
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."
(C.S. Lewis)
Submitted by Chris Furlong, Ireland
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
(Margaret Thatcher)
Submitted by Paul Duffy, Ireland
"What's money?
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning
and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
(Bob Dylan)
Submitted by Paul Duffy, Ireland
"It’s easy to do anything in victory.
It’s in defeat that a man reveals himself.”
(Floyd Patterson - Afro-American Boxer)
Submitted by Miss E. Duffy, Ireland
"Follow the three R's,
Respect for self
Respect for others
Responsibility for all your actions"
(Dalai Lama)
Submitted by The Editor and Sean O'Cuinn, Ireland
"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home"
(J. H. Payne 1842-1916)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
Optimism
"It's no use to worry or grumble,
However hard times there may be,
I never go out, but I stumble,
On someone far worse off than me."
Submitted by D. Duffy, Ireland
"Be kind.
Most people you meet are having a hard time."
(Bob Dylan)
Submitted by the Editor, Ireland
"The place to be happy is here,
The time to be happy is now."
(Robert Green Ingersoll)
Submitted by Elizabeth Duffy, Ireland
"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
And all is well."
(Unknown)
Submitted by Robert Duffy, Ireland
"Attitude is more important than the past, than education,
than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say.
It is more important than appearances, giftedness, or skill."
(W.C. Fields)
Submitted by Robert Duffy, Ireland
"Blessed is she who suffers with the very young, and the very lonely, for she has compassion.
Blessed is she who greets the world with joy, laughter, and anticipation, for she has courage.
Blessed is she who speaks gently, lives humbly, and chooses to give freely, for she has dignity.
Blessed is she who listens and hears and extends her hand as a friend, for she has understanding.
Blessed is she who gives simply, loves deeply, and walks joyfully in life for she has sincerity and awareness.
Blessed is she who has compassion and courage, freedom and dignity, understanding, sincerity and awareness, for she is a woman, a gift, a blessing."
(A THOUGHT FOR THE JUBILEE DAY FOR THE DIGNITY OF WOMEN - 25th March, 2000
From Ampleforth Abbey's newsletter. North Yorkshire.)
Submitted by Diana G., London.
"And that inverted bowl we call the sky;
Whereunder creeping cooped we live and die;
Lift not thy hands for help, for it
Rolls impotently on as you or I."
(The Rubaiyat. Omar Khayyyam)
submitted by R. Lister, Co. Wexford
"Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens"
(Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain)
(Schiller).
submitted by R. Lister, Co. Wexford
"Beauty doesn't boil the pot"
submitted by Elizabeth Duffy, Ireland
"faith is the bird that sings when dawn is still dark"
(Rabindranath Tagore)
submitted by Deirdre McNally, Ireland
"Better to remain silent
and be thought a fool
than to speak out and remove all doubt"
(Some attribute it to Mark Twain, others to Abraham Lincoln and still others to Shelley. It may have even been originally derived from Proverbs 17:28
"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding")
submitted by C. Furlong, Ireland
"Happiness does not come from having
much, but from being attached to little".
(Unknown)
"Joy and suffering never leave us.
Life is a long march with a heavy burden"
(Japanese proverb)
submitted by the Editor