“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

“Who would write, who had any thing better to do?” — Lord Byron

On seeing Niagara Falls, Gustav Mahler exclaimed: “Fortissimo at last!”

Irish sayings:

• “You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
• “It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.”
• “A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures.”
• “You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.”
• “Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.”
• “Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.”
• “Anything will fit a naked man.”
• “The only cure for love is marriage.”

And “He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.”

“Humankind cannot stand very much reality.” — T.S. Eliot

The couch used by Sigmund Freud during psychoanalytic sessions. “I have found little that is good about human beings,” he wrote. “In my experience most of them are trash.”

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” — A.A. Milne

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” — Albert Einstein