Boyle Roche

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All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Hands
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Every pint bottle should contain a quart.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Bottles
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The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Past
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Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Lying
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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Done
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We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Silence
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P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Funny
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At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Funny
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Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Air
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The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Half
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Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Calamity
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Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Father
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Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Sister
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There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Sin
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Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Inspirational
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The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Way
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How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Two
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A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Men
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A quart bottle should hold a quart.
- Boyle Roche
Collection: Bottles