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- An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.
- Unknown
- Many a man's tongue broke his nose.
- Seamus MacManus
- May all who love the Lord, love you and those who don't love you, may the Lord give them a limp so you can see them coming.
- Irish Blessing
- Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
- Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
- Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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