Friday Fun Seán Ó Faoláin Sayings
On drink
“An Irish Queer is a fellow who prefers women to drink”
“Did it ever occur to you that the bottom of a whiskey bottle is much too near the top”
“A true Irishman is a fellow who would trample over the bodies of twelve naked women to reach a pint of porter”
On Sex
“I have only four plausible reasons for Irish continence (self-restraint from sexual activity): that sexual desire is sublimated (energy diverted to more acceptable nature) by religion, exhausted by sport, drugged by drink or deflected by either an innate or inculcated Puritanism (excessively strict sexual abstinence)”
