Sir Boyle Roche was an Irish parliamentarian of the 18th century who achieved a reputation for remarks stupid even by the standards of politicians. “How could I be in two places at once unless I were a bird?” was his excuse for an absence that few of his contemporaries regretted. But another observation — “Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?” — is the one he bequeathed to, well, posterity.
即使按政客标准衡量，18世纪爱尔兰国会议员博伊尔•罗奇爵士(Sir Boyle Roche)的言论也以愚蠢出名。“除非我是一只鸟，否则我怎么可能同时出现在两个地方？”，这是他为一次缺席给出的理由（其实同僚中很少有人对他的缺席感到遗憾）。但他的另一句评论——“为什么我们要不辞劳苦地为后人做任何事，因为后代又为我们做了什么呢？”——是留给后人的。
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