The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

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.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

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.

Rome wasn't built in A.D.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Another day gone and no jokes.

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.

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.

Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

With the media how it is these days, people expect to know everything. I don't talk about my girlfriend because essentially she doesn't want to be talked about.

Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?

A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.

A turtleneck is about sophistication.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.