A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
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:
It's only by the hard blows of adverse fortune that character is tooled.
What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.
Why does Antony dream out his hours,
And tempts not fortune for a noble day?
We know the value of a fortune when we have gained it, and that of a friend when we have lost it.
When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Good fortune comes to some people while they are asleep (i.e., without their seeking it).
Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship.