"Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold."
Robert Frost

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · SAINT PATRICK'S DAY
Best Saint Patrick's Day quotes from Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney and JFK: 200 lines on Irish luck, wit, heritage and friendship.
"Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold."
Robert Frost
"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'"Robin Williams
"Green, how I want you green."
Federico García Lorca
"I'm Irish. We think sideways."
Spike Milligan
"Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery."
Spike Milligan
"May your God go with you."
Dave Allen
"Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
"True friends stab you in the front."Oscar Wilde
"Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more."
James Stephens
"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."
James Joyce
"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
Samuel Beckett
"I came to the Irish people to preach the Gospel and endure the taunts of unbelievers."
Saint Patrick
"The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood."
Daniel O'Connell
"Through endurance we conquer."
Ernest Shackleton
"Joy is the serious business of heaven."C. S. Lewis
"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
Charlie Chaplin
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
Victor Borge
"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
Oprah Winfrey
"Celebrate what you want to see more of."
Thomas J. Peters
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
Marcus Garvey
"Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."Walt Disney
"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky."
William Wordsworth
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."Maya Angelou
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost."
J. R. R. Tolkien