Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none.
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:
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
Both love and friendship are inferior to loyalty and honour.
Pompey lives after his battles, but his fortune has perished.
We praise loyalty, but it pays the price when it supports those whom Fortune crushes.
No man's more fortunate than he who's poor,
Since for the worse his fortune cannot change.
Who lets slip Fortune, her shall never find,
Occasion once passed by, is bald behind.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.