A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
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:
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new * * * is neither strong nor pure.
Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
He whom fortune has never deceived, rarely considers the uncertainty of human events.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
He had not the method of making a fortune.