Advice Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

— Winston Churchill

“He may seem the fool who has given his all, by the wise men of the world; but it was the apparent fools who…

— Patrick Pearse

“OUR PERSUASION: Too many prophecies have already been literally fulfilled for any reasonable person to say that these things happened by chance. They happened…

— Oliver Greene

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed…

— John Fowles

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

— George Bernard Shaw

“The only decision to focus on is the one you are still able to make,” he said. I nodded. We Irish suffer a long-standing…

— Eugene O'Kelly

“An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.”

— George Bernard Shaw

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.

— Jean Baudrillard

“You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you…

— Mary Deasy

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn’t.”

— Kate Atkinson