John Boyle O'Reilly famous quotes

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Flower #Passion #White

When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Honor #Ready #Your Honor

The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Wisdom #Wealth #Mankind

Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Death #Love Is #Anchors

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Country #War #Sacrifice

How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Hands #Twists #Necks

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Friendship #Real Friends #Men

And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Rights #Law #Soul

... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Men #Rights #Planets

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Half #Unjust #Abomination

Anonymity is the fame of the future.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Social Media #Fame #Anonymity

Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Men #Giving #Sigh

Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Judging #Praise #Ends

For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Kissing #Desire #Lips

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Names #Charity #Statistics

For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Integrity #Humble #White

The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Father #Exercise #Play

I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Land #Bohemia

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Right Words #Rarity

The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Heart #Two #League

Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Loyalty #Heart #Quality

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Mother #Nurse #Ireland And The Irish

Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Experience #Heed

Each heart holds the secret: 'Kindness' is the word.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Kindness #Heart #Secret

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Boxing #Endurance #Rowdy

Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Football #Exercise #Fighting

They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Flying #Shore

Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Fighting #Exercise #Boys

The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Art #Mean #Exercise

Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Brother #Doubt #Despair

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Peace #Years #Break

Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Life #Skills #Symphony

Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Silence #Safe #Silent

A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly

#Dream #Forever #Dreamer