Tipperary Quotes & Sayings

Those who can, teach; those who can't, criticize. — Dan Hokstad

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. — Erich Fromm

The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shape which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the maker of idle toys. — Murasaki Shikibu

The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery. — Will Cuppy

The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer — Aaron Betsky

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do — Arthur Schopenhauer

This history sets forth the only true account of the adventures of a daring Tipperary man named Darby O'Gill among the Fairies of Sleive na mon. These adventures were first related to me by Mr. Jerry Murtaugh a reliable car driver who goes between Kilcuny and Ballinderg. He is a first cousin of Darby O'Gill's own mother. — Herminie Templeton Kavanagh

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology. — John Collison

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars. — Dominick Dunne

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People do the damndest things when they're in love. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning. — Winston Churchill

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference. — Aaron Sorkin

I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in the country, and lots of people have horses there. — Kerry Condon

My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot. — Eric Schneiderman