Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.