Saint Patrick's Day Quotes

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful."

"Things reveal themselves passing away."

W. B. Yeats

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

"Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair."

Edmund Burke

"So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy."

Laurence Sterne

"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed."

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property."

Maria Edgeworth

"Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness – the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living."

Seán O'Casey

"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will."

James Stephens

"Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real."

Iris Murdoch

"I have often marvelled at the thin line which separates success from failure."

Ernest Shackleton

"Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for... because it's the only thing that lasts."

Margaret Mitchell

"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree."

Joyce Kilmer

"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living."

Mother Jones

"The best mirror is an old friend."

George Herbert

"Old friends are best."

John Selden

"Kind words are the music of the world."

Frederick William Faber

"Joy is not in things; it is in us."

Richard Wagner

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

E. E. Cummings

"Mirth is God's medicine."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

William Hazlitt

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

Anaïs Nin

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."

Anthony J. D'Angelo