People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.