Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.