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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. . -George Bernard Shaw.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -George Bernard Shaw.

Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Gin was mother's milk to her.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.