The mind is free, whate’er afflict the man,
A King’s a King, do Fortune what she can.
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:
They make their fortune who are stout and wise,
Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.
Under [his] feet, subjected to his grace,
Sit nature, fortune, motion, time and place.
“I always said that I wouldn’t lose a fortune on a football club.”
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Remote from liberty and truth,
By fortune's crime, my early youth
Drank error's poisoned springs.
We only think of the bad things that happen, rather than those that, through fortune, pass us by.
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.
Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.