It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

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.