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:
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
It's a common saying that the children of children are fortune's favorites.
Though I was long in coming to the light,
Yet may I mount to fortune's highest height.
Referring to a wealthy miser he said, "He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him."
To know another person's fortune smacks of wanting to control their fate for the wrong reasons.
While others amass the fortunes of this world, may my only fortune be Thy holy grace.
"The moment created a friendship, an emotional moment, and a significant message to the world.”
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel
For each man's good.