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:
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
O Fortune, that enviest the brave, what unequal rewards thou bestowest on the righteous!
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.