I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.