What ill-starr'd rage
Divides a friendship long confirm'd by age?
Saint Patrick's Day Quotes
No Irish collection sits under this page. It comes from two others, luck and friendship, which is about as close as a mechanical match can get to a day of toasts. The luck page leans on Seneca, Livy and Shakespeare, and on Horace’s complaint about Fortune, so expect fortune in the Roman sense rather than the four-leaf kind.
Two of its entries, from Torquato Tasso, are flagged misattributed. If you want an Irish writer, use the search box. Wilde and Shaw are both on the site.
Most quoted on saint patrick's day:
Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,
Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
Do I not most effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?
I have lost friends, some by death [...] others through sheer inability to cross the street.
For friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.
Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.
The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.
FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but none in foul.