In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
Author » Shaw, George Bernard
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.
Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.