We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.