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:
Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend,
But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
'Tis something to be willing to commend;
But my best praise is, that I am your friend.
"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure,
For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.
'Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives,
And in their deaths had not divided been.