The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
We must face the fact that society is founded on intolerance. [. . .] We may prate of toleration as we will; but society must always draw a line somewhere between allowable conduct and insanity or cri...
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge...
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existi...
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.