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:
Because the gifts of fortune, if unknown
To those who have them, cannot be called gifts.
Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
The fortunes of a nation are determined above everything by the quality of its people.
There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold togather.
What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship?
Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods.