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* '''Behold a proof of Irish sense!''' from Jonathan Swift's ''Epigram on the Magazine'' satirizing the building of the Magazine fort in the Phoenix Park: “Behold a proof of Irish sense! Here Irish wit is seen! Where nothing’s left that’s worth defence, they build a magazine.” → Swift was the author of ''Gulliver's Travels'', whose image of Gulliver as a sleeping giant on the Lilliputian shore informs this passage * '''Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves:''' Lewis Carroll, ''Through the Looking Glass'', punning on the proverb ''Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves'' * '''behove:''' to be fit, right or necessary * '''hoved:''' (''Danish'') head → [[Howth|Howth Head]] derives its name from this word [[Category:Jonathan Swift]] [[Category: Howth]]

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