Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.