Tue 9 Oct 2007
Who gossips with you will gossip of you.
- Anonymous
A drunkard is a dead man, and all dead men are drunk.
- Yeats
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
I spent 90% of my money on woman and drink. The rest I wasted.
- George Best
Beware of people who dislike cats.
- Anonymous
There can be no tradition without innovation.
- Earle Hitchner
Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.
- Anonymous
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
- John Millington Synge
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
- Lewis
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- Jonathan Swift
Great hate follows great love.
- Anonymous
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- C. S. Lewis
I am a drinker with a writing problem.
- Brendan Behan
If God shuts one door, He opens another.
- Anonymous
You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Anonymous
If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams
Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn
In the Pool they told us the story
How the English divided the land.
- John Lennon
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven’t seen the joke yet.
- Oliver Herford
All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
- Sean Casey
2 Responses to “Irish Quotes and Sayings”
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June 25th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
If you like Irish girls raise your hands…
If you don’t raise your standards!
May 25th, 2012 at 8:23 am
Brenden Behan, quoted in the April 2009 “Ireland of the Welcomes Magazine as saying:
“Work is the curse of the drinking class”