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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. - [Society] Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one. - quoted in "Ireland in Mind", Alice Leccese Powers, ed. (2000) [Ireland] Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. - [Inevitable] Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. - [Life] Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. - [Fashion] Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. - [Thinking] Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. - [Wit] Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. - [Folly] Get married, but never to a man who is home all day. - [Marriage] Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. - [Health] Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. - [Art] Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language. - attributed to, but not found in his writings [America : England : Language] Hamlet's experience simply could not have happened to a plumber. - [Shakespeare] Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. - [Hatred] He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. - [Custom] He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. - [Teaching] He who has never hoped can never despair. - [Despair] Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. - [Hell] How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first? - [Teaching] I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen. - [Artists] I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum. - [Insanity] I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle class morality. - [Morality] I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going. - [Taxation] I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. - [Temptation] I never thought much of the courage of a lion-tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. - [Courage] Displaying page 2 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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