Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. – Dave Barry Category: saintpatricksday
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. – Brendan Behan Category: saintpatricksday
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. – William Butler Yeats Category: saintpatricksday
Every St. Patricks Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. – Shane Leslie Category: saintpatricksday
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. – Sydney J. Harris Category: Cynicism
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. – Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963 Category: Writing
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. – Jean Baudrillard Category: Intelligence