Every pint bottle should contain a quart.

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

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

Every pint bottle should contain a quart.

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.

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

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