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:
The great man down, you mark his favorite flies,
The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.
How some men creep in skittish Fortune's hall,
While others play the idiots in her eyes!
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem:
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.
Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.