Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves?

What you conquer in your youth is your trophy in adulthood.

I was pissed that I couldn’t go out and celebrate like someone turning twenty-one typically would, so I wore black hair to show my family just how pissed off I was.

We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.

The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.