Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.

Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.

Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.

Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.

For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.

There is not a man alive who would not want you.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.