Irish Quotes for St. Patrick's Day

Irish Quotes for St. Patrick's Day

"What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?"
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"When Irish eyes are smiling, sure, 'tis like the morn in Spring.
In the lilt of Irish laughter, you can hear the angels sing."
Chauncey Olcott and George Graff

"St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time, a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic."
Adrienne Cook

"In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God."
Braveheart

"Saint Patrick was a gentleman, who through strategy and stealth,
Drove all the snakes from Ireland, here's a drink to his health!
But not too many drinks, lest we lose ourselves and then
Forget the good Saint Patrick, and see those snakes again!"
Author Unknown

"I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in God even when He is silent."
Irish Saying

"If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough."
Traditional Irish Saying

"Health and life to you,
The woman of your choice for you,
A child every year for you,
And may you die in Ireland."
Traditional Irish Blessing

"We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm."
Marianne Williamson

"May those who love us, love us; and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He doesn't turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping."
Traditional Irish Toast

"It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears."
Irish Saying

"Ireland is rich in literature that understands a soul's yearnings, and dancing that understands a happy heart."
Margaret Jackson

"When laws can stop the blades of grass from growin' as they grow,
And when the leaves in summer-time their color dare not show,
Then I will change the colour, too, I wear in my caubeen,
But till that day, please God, I'll stick to the Wearin' o' the Green."
Traditional Irish Song

"Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time."
Horace Sutton

"There are only two kinds of people in the world, the Irish and those who wish they were."
Traditional Irish Saying

"The Irish, be they kings, or poets, or farmers, they're a people of great worth.
They keep company with the angels, and bring a bit of heaven here to earth."
Anonymous

"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
Oliver Herford

"In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs."
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy

"For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry,
And all their songs are sad."
G. K. Chesterton

"The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights"
Will Rogers

"The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it."
Sidney Littlewood

"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."
Irish Saying

"Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, For poetry makes nothing happen"
W. H. Auden

"On she went, and her maiden smile,
In safety lighted her round the Green Isle;
And blest forever was she who relied
Upon Erin's honor and Erin's pride."
Thomas Moore

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
William Butler Yeats

Maybe it's bred in the bone, but the sound of pipes is a little bit of heaven to some of us.
Nancy O'Keefe

"Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I arise, Christ in the heart of every person who thinks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in the ear that hears me."
St. Patrick

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