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I am so happy that you saw your epop. — Patrick O'Brian

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority. — Patrick O'Brian

I'm an eternal optimist. — Brian O'Driscoll

Trollops are capital things in port, but will not do at sea. — Patrick O'Brian

How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset. — Patrick O'Brian

Wittles is up' said Killick — Patrick O'Brian

It has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room — Patrick O'Brian

Jack, you've debauched my sloth. — Patrick O'Brian

Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce. — Brian C. O'Connor, Jud H. Copeland, Jodi L. Kearns

I've come down from the mountains, with an ass-full of specimens... — Patrick O'Brian

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it ... — Patrick O'Brian

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one's demon. — Patrick O'Brian

Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player. — Brian O'Driscoll

I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards. — Brian O'Driscoll

God,' he thought, 'never let me outlive my wits. — Patrick O'Brian

Come all you thoughtless young men,
a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea. — Patrick O'Brian

Whereas I had not meant anything so illiberal as a national reflexion, of course; only that I hated Papists. — Patrick O'Brian

There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it. — Brian F. O'Byrne

I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good. — Patrick O'Brian

Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction.Wh o are your customers and how are they doing? — Brian Tracy

You do not mean there is danger of peace?, cried Jack. — Patrick O'Brian

My nutritional knowledge is good enough to figure out what's good, what's bad, and where my leeway is. — Brian O'Driscoll

If you seal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. (Mizner) — Brian O'Hare

Jack had never been a hypocrite until he became a father, and even now it did not come easy. — Patrick O'Brian

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation. — Patrick O'Brian

I'm fairly adventurous with my eating. I've tried kangaroo, and Moreton Bay bugs, which are a kind of lobster, are so good. — Brian O'Driscoll

I enjoy training so much, sometimes I don't want it to stop. — Brian O'Driscoll

You cannot say things one week and then behave differently. — Brian O'Driscoll

I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly. — Patrick O'Brian

Let us drink to the renewed success of Irish arms, and confusion to the Pope. — Patrick O'Brian

You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup. — Brian O'Driscoll

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it. — Patrick O'Brian

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship. — Patrick O'Brian

As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more. — Brian O'Driscoll

What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what? — Patrick O'Brian

Should I feel better if I were to vomit?' asked Jagiello. 'I doubt it,' said Stephen. 'It has done nothing for the Colonel. — Patrick O'Brian

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew. — Patrick O'Brian

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life. — Patrick O'Brian

The victory is always sweeter ... winning things with friends. — Brian O'Driscoll

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters. — Patrick O'Brian

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. (Naipaul...but it could be me if the thousands of tweets are anything to go by.) — Brian O'Hare

That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts. — Brian O'Driscoll

You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life. — Patrick O'Brian

I have interests outside of rugby and have been cultivating them for when I do decide to hang up the boots. — Brian O'Driscoll

Lord Nelson's maxim 'Never mind manoeuvres: always go straight at 'em. — Patrick O'Brian

Dressing rooms can be vicious places, in the best possible way, from a slagging point of view. — Brian O'Driscoll

Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them. — Patrick O'Brian

Virtue should always be colmingled with humor. — Patrick O'Brian

Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book. — Patrick O'Brian

One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place. — Brian O'Driscoll

Jack and Stephen were neither of them human until the first pot of coffee was down, hot and strong. — Patrick O'Brian

My missus knows to leave me alone. — Brian O'Driscoll

He held up two fingers, in case a landman might not fully comprehend so great a number. — Patrick O'Brian

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement. — Patrick O'Brian

Still, the farther hills remained as untouched as the sea; high, remote, arid, dark and sterile, poisoned with the sun. — Patrick O'Brian

I get burnt in the sun, so there's no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer. — Brian O'Driscoll

Do you not find it happens very often, that you are as gay as Garrick at dinner and then by supper-time you wonder why God made the world? — Patrick O'Brian

There never was a ship that fought well without she was a happy ship. — Patrick O'Brian

Sometimes you receive a knock in action: it may be your death-wound or just a scratch — Patrick O'Brian

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different. — Brian O'Driscoll

It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer. — Patrick O'Brian

Better than a shove in the eye with a dry stick. [- Jack] — Patrick O'Brian

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. — Brian O'Driscoll

I'm very much a glass-half-full person. — Brian O'Driscoll

Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham.
Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large. — Patrick O'Brian

If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there. — Brian O'Driscoll

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case. — Brian O'Driscoll

If you can beat New Zealand, then you're probably going to win the World Cup. — Brian O'Driscoll

I sew his ears on from time to time, sure. — Patrick O'Brian

NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick in. — Conan O'Brien

About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private. — Patrick O'Brian

It must be a weary life, being in a permanent state of rage or at least at half-cock. — Patrick O'Brian

I was exposed to the gym at about 28. I never had a huge love or appetite for it - it was just a means to an end. — Brian O'Driscoll

The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it. — Brian O'Driscoll

For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary ... — Patrick O'Brian

How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck — Patrick O'Brian

The journey of a lifetime is within, you are your own destination. Rick Jarow — Brian O'Raleigh

A virtuous esculent! — Patrick O'Brian

She is remarkably dry,' he said to Stephen who, preferring to die in the open, had crept up on deck, — Patrick O'Brian

was an officer holding out his sword, — Patrick O'Brian

I don't really want to be the centre of attention. — Brian O'Driscoll

The mind of a man is often thrown off its track by what women possess between their legs

The Halloween Orgy Massacre — Jeff O'Brian

He that would make a pun would pick a pocket. — Patrick O'Brian

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love... — Patrick O'Brian

Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them. — Patrick O'Brian

Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; — Patrick O'Brian

Wallis,' said Maturin, 'I am happy to see you. How is your penis? — Patrick O'Brian

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about. — Patrick O'Brian

I've never bought a sports car. — Brian O'Driscoll

The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed. — Patrick O'Brian

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment. — Brian O'Driscoll

When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself. — Brian O'Driscoll

Clap on with both hands, sir - never say die - one more heave and we're home, safe and dry. — Patrick O'Brian

It is unjust to provoke a man and then to complain he is a satyr if the provocation succeeds. You — Patrick O'Brian

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me. — Brian O'Driscoll

I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV. — Brian F. O'Byrne

Invincible ignorance could not be enlightened; and — Patrick O'Brian

We have contact with alien cultures. — Brian O'Leary

all that wretched schoolmastering.' 'On some it acts like a poison, making them unfit for the society of grown men. — Patrick O'Brian