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:
How often things occur by mere chance, which we dared not even to hope for.
He talks nonsense; to a sensible man there is no such thing as chance.
Fortune never seems so blind as to those upon whom she confers no favors.
The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse.
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.