Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
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:
Dull grown-ups and bright children form a particularly tolerant friendship.
Being sociable and affable with people brings kindness and friendship.
Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
The reader has by now probably become accustomed to the reversals of fortune so common in astronomy.
Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,
Who gives and asks no payment.
We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged.
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.
Silliness which would have broken a politician twenty years ago, now makes his fortune.