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:
We measure a man’s greatness by his merit and not by his fortune.
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them; for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
In friendship false, implacable in hate,
Resolved to ruin, or to rule the state.
"Fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off."
I am not now in fortune's power:
He that is down can fall no lower.
The rare few, who, early in life, have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.