Leonard Feeney

Quotes

• “They put a hood upon his head    And bound it with a thong. Then—England lost a ball of lead    And Ireland lost a song.”
• “Motherhood is never honored by excessive talk about the heroics of pregnancy.”
• “People who believe in little laugh at little.”
• “The other day it was reported in the newspaper that a Maine hen had won a prize for having hatched nearly 200 pullets in the course of a single year. Now what ought the faithful youngster to remark on hearing that? He ought to remark that the hen deserved the Pulletser Prize.”
• “As good a pun as was ever spoken, to my memory, was made by a young English Jesuit now teaching at Wimbledon College. He met in a railway train a young man who said he was constructing a philosophy of his own. The young man declared that he set the foundation of his private philosophical system in the following epistemological principle: "I am, therefore I think!" "Oh," replied the young Jesuit, "isn't that putting Descartes before the horse?"”
• “Though art be on vacation,    The studio remains; The well of inspiration    Is backing out of drains. Come, let us daub, my crazys,    Surrealize the thrill Of soapsuds on the daisies    And skylarks in the swill. Ours not to reason whether    Surprise surpasseth wonder, When man hath joined together    What God hath rent asunder.”

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