What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness..

Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that….

Another day gone and no jokes..

Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary re….

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

I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a….

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays ….

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?.

When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why….

The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but to….

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

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mi….

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill..

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

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 ONL….

The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get….

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't..

It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follo….

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

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind..

Rome wasn't built in A.D..