poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

- Dervla Murphy

... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.

- Dervla Murphy

Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spread…

- Dervla Murphy

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

- Dervla Murphy

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

- Dervla Murphy

... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personali…

- Dervla Murphy

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

- Dervla Murphy

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

- Dervla Murphy

Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simp…

- Dervla Murphy