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

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

Every pint bottle should contain a quart.

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

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.

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