The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

It takes madness to find out madness.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge.

Dear Boss! Don't be a boss-hole.

You get something, if you do something

I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

Show me a woman with a subscription to a bridal magazine and I'll show you someone who doesn't even have a boyfriend.

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

The older I get, the more things change as to what is important.

One of the treasures of nature is beauty; this, too, should be preserved.