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:
He whose friendship is worth having, must hate and be hated.
Beautiful friendship tried by sun and wind,
Durable from the daily dust of life.
'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
This friendship and this bond that we share is, to us, the No. 1 priority.
That Putin ends up poisoning himself is an ending fit for Shakespeare.
Fortune, turn thy wheel.