It takes madness to find out madness.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide.

Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.