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:
[re a woman on TV on 'Wheel of Fortune'] She makes you proud to be a two-legged mammal.
Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Words are easy, like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find.
God save me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies.