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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.

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One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider our problem, can change our whole outlook on the world.

Elton Mayo Edward William Bok (1947)

I always value quality over quantity and keep a few very trustworthy friends and mentors who I share all my ups and downs with while on the go.

Jessica Minh Anh Jessica Minh Anh (2018)

Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of "Mormonism"; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers.

Joseph Smith Jr.

What I look for in a friend is someone who's different from me. The more different the person is, the more I'll learn from him. The more he'll come up with surprising takes on ideas and things and situations.

Samuel R. Delany The Mad Man (1994)

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos (1994)

Jim [Coleman, his defense attorney] and Fred [Lawrence, his minister], I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends.

Ted Bundy

My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.

Emily Dickinson

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

“Can I still wish you good luck?”
“You can wish me what the hell you like. It won’t make any difference. If it did, it would mean I hadn’t prepared well enough.

Alastair Reynolds Redemption Ark (2002)

There's a light that is shining in the heart of a man,
it's the light that was shining when the world began.
There's a light that is shining in the Turk and the Jew
and a light that is shining, friend, in me and in you.

Sydney Carter George Fox (1966)

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai Stevenson II

A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.

Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not all his men may sever this,
It yields to friends', not monarchs', calls;
My whinstone house my castle is—
I have my own four walls.

Thomas Carlyle My Own Four Walls (1825)

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegon Days (1985)

I affirm that Indonesia is a true friend of Malaysia and I hope that trade and business relations, investment, culture and labor issues can be improved. The friendship between the two (nations) must be strengthened.

Anwar Ibrahim Anwar Ibrahim (2022)

“Broken oaths are bad luck eggs.”
That was so weird, I did not know what to say. So I said, “Eggs?”
“They hatch bad luck.”

John C. Wright Orphans of Chaos (2005)

Fear when the friend fears you.

Hossein Nuri Illuminationist Depictions (2015)

Chance seldom interferes with the wise man; his greatest and highest interests have been, are, and will be, directed by reason throughout his whole life. (16).

Epicurus

Fate, eh? Bloody bad luck, I call it.

John DeChancie Castle War! (1990)

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