The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?" I felt pleased again. He was now questioning me. "What?" "That No is a better word than Yes," he replied.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".