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:
Though Fortune now be smiling, it behoves
To look ahead, nor e'er to trust in Fortune.
Who has not known ill fortune, never knew
Himself, or his own virtue.
Deep in the man sits fast his fate
To mould his fortunes, mean or great.
La Fortune, pour arriver à moi, passera par les conditions que lui impose mon caractère.
Learn fortitude and toil from me, my son,
Ache of true toil. Good fortune learn from others.
A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.
Fortune had done him few favors in the past, and he wasn’t sure he trusted it.
Fortune assists the Bold, the Valiant Man
Oft Conqueror proves, because he thinks he can.