Irish Permanent Building

Famous quotes containing the words irish, permanent and/or building:

    “Concurring hands divide

    flax for damask
    that when bleached by Irish weather
    has the silvered chamois-leather
    water-tightness of a
    skin.”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    “The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.”
    —Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)