23 Quotes by Boyle Roche

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.

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

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

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

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