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:
Your friendship will be very important to someone today, so give yourself time to be a good friend.
O Fortune! I fling no reproaches at thee,
For thou hast been gentle and gen'rous to me.
"Three words sum up my journey: "Friendship, Love, and God"."
For friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
His nobility led him to take a few steps in the direction of fortune, and then to despise her.
For to like the same things and to dislike the same things, only this is a strong friendship.
"I am not showing up for work, but they are not paying me. The friendship goes on..."
No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.
What you call weakness comes from the strength of friendship.
So, march away; and let due praise be given
Neither to fate nor fortune, but to Heaven.