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:
Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth
The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
Friendship ... flourishes not so much by kindnesses as by sincerity.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
Used to have friends, now I've got enemies. Used to keep them close, now they're dead to me.
Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.