Saint Patrick's Day Quotes

"Spring is when life's alive in everything."

Christina Rossetti

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."

Margaret Atwood

"It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Home is the nicest word there is."

Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men."

Homer

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life."

Melody Beattie

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."

Doug Larson

"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."

Epicurus

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Berthold Auerbach

"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."

John Dryden

"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse."

Jonathan Swift

"Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs."

Oliver Goldsmith

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."

James Joyce

"Words are all we have."

Samuel Beckett

"Confusion is not an ignoble condition."

Brian Friel

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

John Barrymore

"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world."

Pliny the Elder

"We make our fortunes and we call them fate."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet."

"Friends are the family we choose for ourselves."

Jess C. Scott

"Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts, nor measure words – but pouring them all right out."

Dinah Craik

"I'll come back in the springtime."