Quotes and Sayings of yester world

The fisherman has two homes. If he tires of his shoes, he can pull on his boots; sit in his boat or Currach out on the tops of the waves. Doesn’t the man who has fishing in his blood prefer the thwart to the stool, the line to the spade, the sound of the waves to the chattering of home? Eoghan O’ Colm


Athnionn ciarog, ciarog eile! – One beetle recognises another.


“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things” – Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince 1532)


“The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level we created them at” – Albert Einstein.


"Cad a Dheanamhfaimid feasta gan Adhmaid" – What will we do without our woods, from the 17 century brehon poet.


A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing lost. – Lao Tze, 500 BC

“square their actions by the square of virtue" and to learn to "circumscribe their desires and keep their passions within due bounds toward all mankind".

Freemasons..

“Ireland without its history is nothing” – Paul De Paor.

There are three lines on your finger, each one an inch – A Perfect World, Kevin Costner.

Don’t take life too seriously, you may never get out alive – Van Wilders Party Liaison.

Mar is ar scath a cheile mhaireann na ndaoine – we all live in each others shadow – 03/06/2008

Only when the last trees have died, the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught, will we realise we cannot eat money – Cree Indian saying.


"And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead."
-- Philip Robison


"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."
-- Unknown

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Within you I lose myself Without you I find myself Wanting to be lost again."
-- Unknown


“I’m looking for the least possible amount of responsibility” American Beauty.
Manage the unavoidable, but Avoid the Unmanageable.

The hand remains on the branch but not on the bush.