It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.