Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. - Brian O'Nolan

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

If Irish were to die completely, the standard of English here, both in the spoken and written word, would sink to a level probably as low as that obtaining in England and it would stop there only because it could go no lower.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.