I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.