When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

Rome wasn't built in A.D.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Another day gone and no jokes.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape.

To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.

No one is the worse for knowing two languages.

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

We don't really know what Iran are capable of when the gun is put to their head

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.