Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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

Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

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

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.