Best 12 quotes of Boyle Roche on MyQuotes

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

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

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

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?