Continuing our Irish theme, here is a selection of quotations from a few great men of the Emerald Isle. No doubt you'll be familiar with some of them - perhaps you've even thought the same thing yourself.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing I ever do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. - Oscar Wilde
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. - George Bernard Shaw
The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work. - W.B. Yeats
He who can does. He who cannot, teaches. - George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - 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. - George Bernard Shaw
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. - Oscar Wilde
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. - James Joyce
[Dancing is] a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - George Bernard Shaw
I can resist everything except temptation. - Oscar Wilde
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old. - Jonathan Swift
When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it. - Sean O'Casey
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. - George Moore
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde
In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs. - John Pentland Mahaffy