Boyle Roche Quotes

• All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.

  Boyle Roche

  Hands, Unseen, Path

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• Every pint bottle should contain a quart.

  Boyle Roche

  Bottles, Should, Pints

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• The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

  Boyle Roche

  Past, Happens

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• Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

  Boyle Roche

  Lying, Deceit, Half

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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

  Done, Way, Should

  Debate in Irish House of Commons, quoted in Sir Jonah Barrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827). SeeAddison 7:40.

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• We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

  Boyle Roche

  Silence, Freedom Of Speech, Speech

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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

  Funny, Stupid, Writing

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• At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.

  Boyle Roche

  Funny, Stupid, Standstill

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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

  Air, Sky, Smell

  Attributed

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• The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

  Boyle Roche

  Half, Cups, Misery

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• Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

  Boyle Roche

  Calamity, Greater, Me Alone

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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

  Father, Men, Brave

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• Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

  Boyle Roche

  Sister, Brother, Two

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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

  Sin, Shame, Decree

  c.1800 Debate on theAct of Union between Great Britain and Ireland, IrishHouse of Commons, quotedin SirJonahBarrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827).

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• Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

  Boyle Roche

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Nurse

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• The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

  Boyle Roche

  Way, Danger, Best Way

  Quoted in Sir Jonah Barrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827).

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• How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

  Boyle Roche

  Two, Bird

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• A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird.

  Boyle Roche

  Men, Two, Bird

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• A quart bottle should hold a quart.

  Boyle Roche

  Bottles, Should

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