Rebuilding Lives in Northern Ireland
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Feb 19th, 2013
“Come away, O human child To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping Than you can understand.” W. B. Yeats W.B. Yeats dedicated most of his love poetry to Maude Gonne, his un-requited love.
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Jan 27th, 2013
“A lifetime of happiness. No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.” by George Bernard Shaw.
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Jan 19th, 2013
“The windy day is not the day for thatching.” As this suggests, wind is the enemy of a thatched roof. Traditional thatched houses in Ireland date back to the 17th century, but thatching itself dates back to our earliest inhabitants. Scenes from the 19th century show the battering ram being used to knock down walls and […]
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Jan 16th, 2013
Jan 16. – Martin Luther King Day. “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Martin Luther King
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Jan 7th, 2013
“The best of men cannot suspend their fate, The good die early and the bad die late.” Anon
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Dec 13th, 2012
There is no easy road or ready way for virtue.
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Nov 30th, 2012
“The history of a nation is not in parliaments or battlefields, but in what the people say to each other on fair days and high days, and in how they farm and quarrel and go on pilgrimage.” Wm. B. Yeats
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Nov 28th, 2012
“Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only thing we are able to pay are compliments.”
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Nov 25th, 2012
A tune is more lasting than the song of birds. And a word is more lasting than the wealth of the world.
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Nov 3rd, 2012
“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.” George Bernard Shaw
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