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:
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
Alternative translation: In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
As a story teller, Scott is unrivalled ; he would have made the fortune of a cafe at Damascus.
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.
There is no such thing as eternal friendship or eternal hostility–-only eternal interests.
Be honey to those who seek your friendship, but deadly poison to those who dare attack you.