A quart bottle should hold a quart.

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.

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

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

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

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.

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