Flann O'Brien Quotes
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.
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.
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.
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
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.
My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.
I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.
I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.
Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.
A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.
Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.
Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.