Dervla Murphy Quotes
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.
hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.
Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!
one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.
... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.
The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.
Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between those who are 'developed' and those who are not?
Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.
It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.
apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.
