Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie.
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
Now's the day and now's the hour.
My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.
I love going into a country and just blending.
Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance 'debilitating' drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the 100 metres, fair play for you. That's pretty good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.