Hannibal was victorious, but he did not know later how to make good use of his victorious fortune.
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:
Never a man unblemished virtue shows,
Save when he is the butt of fortune's blows.
To man no suffering unexpected comes;
We hold our fortune but from day to day.
Nowhere do men remain loyal for long when Fortune proves unstable.
We do not need your guilt feelings. We need your friendship.
If men will shun swolne Fortunes ruinous blastes,
Let them use Temperance. Nothing violent lastes.
Like ice beneath the sun's rays — to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.
The friendship of one wise man is better than the friendship of a host of fools.
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
The exchange will always deepen, even if the friendship does not.