It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.

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

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.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

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

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.