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:
“I sometimes think that ‘friend’ is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.”
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
My life is lived, and I have played
The part that Fortune gave.
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own.
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
Fortune is gentle to the lowly, and heaven strikes the humble with a light hand.