There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

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

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.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

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

It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.