It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.