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 was just good luck, last minute luck.”
“Your ‘luck’ was mostly sweat and intuition.”
Against ill chances men are ever merry;
But heaviness foreruns the good event.
Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.
When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
The difficulty is not so much to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.
Got a lot of haters and a lot of homies; some friends and some phony.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man,
Some sinister intent taints all he does.
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.