Cooleague

“The conclusion of your syllogism”, I said lightly, “is fallacious, being based upon licensed premises”.

Flann O’Brien (At Swim Two Birds)

“I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody that will inspire me with passion. You know its’ quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness… There is even a moment right at the start, where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.

I know that I shall never jump again”.

J.P. Sartre (Nausea).

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation”.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“The fact that it would devastate her was the reason I had to leave home”.

Clive James (reference to his mother in an interview)

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

Bertrand Russell