In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?
A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Art is the perfection of nature,. . . nature is the art of God.
My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?