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

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.

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.

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

By night, beloved, tie your heart to mineand let them both in dreams defeat the darkness

too much alcohol hampers people's ability to parent. That's why I've chosen to remain childless.

Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

How I have yearned for the sound of your sweet voice,” Tyrion sighed to her. “How I have yearned to have that eunuch’s tongue pulled out with hot pincers,” Cersei replied.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

I'd love to have a family -- sometime in the future.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.