Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
For the great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.
When people cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything