Saint Patrick's Day Quotes

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

"Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain."

Thomas Kettle

"I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding."

John O'Donohue

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

Oliver Herford

"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

"Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong."

Daniel O'Connell

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"

"Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order."

Samuel Beckett

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."

Bram Stoker

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

James Joyce

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

Jonathan Swift

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

Maria Edgeworth

"Life is a journey that must be travelled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

Oliver Goldsmith

"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few."

George Berkeley

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

Edmund Burke

"Optimism is true moral courage."

Ernest Shackleton

"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."

Seán O'Casey

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

Bono

"The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side."

John Boyle O'Reilly

"Educate that you may be free."

Thomas Davis

"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."

Ernest Shackleton