Westmeath Community Quotes & Sayings

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element. — Jeremy Collier

It's a sort of dull unhappiness that comes from isolation & blankness & monotony. It is quite different to the dullness & melancholia at home; I believe people have it sometimes in Kipling & it is, I think, in the air of the country. I went for a walk the other night by the side of the lagoon at sunset; the beauty of it was supreme with the bright green of the paddy fields, the masses of palms, the sky every shade of red & yellow, & the sea every shade of blue; but for all the brilliancy of colour there was a heavy melancholy over it all. — Leonard Woolf

I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone. — Cristina Marrero

Life is a magnificent sacred journey of the soul. — Debasish Mridha

If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress. — Phyllis Schlafly

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. — Robert Trout

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly. — John Locke