There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.