Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

It takes madness to find out madness.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

The purpose of religion is tocontrol yourself, not to criticiseothers.

Each time I think I’ve reached a limit....there is a door....it opens....and the limit is gone.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.

Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.

There is no such thing as a former KGB man.