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:
Set out to build a company and make a contribution, not an empire and a fortune.
"Avoid mixing business with friendship. I learnt that the hard way."
A foundation of friendship is the basis for any relationship.
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
The truth is that I imagined every bit of good fortune that has come my way.
If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.