Irish Quotes And Sayings

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“Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine!”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step.”
– Gerald Kersh

“Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.”
– Gerry Adams

“The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.”
– Harold Nicolson

“She let her mind drift, thinking about new lingerie designs, wishing she’d brought along her sketchpad. Inspiration could strike at the most inconvenient times–in the shower, in the car, on this road–but she was grateful it was with her again, an old companion with whom she was getting reacquainted, pleased to find they could take up where they’d left off, as if there’d been no estrangement at all.”
– Heather Barbieri, The Lace Makers of Glenmara

“All I ever seemed to get was the kind of girl who had a special dispensation from Rome to wear the thickest part of her legs below the knee.”
– Hugh Leonard

“I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.”
– Iris Murdoch

“But the greatest love: the love above all loves,
Even greater than that of a mother…
Is the tender, passionate, undying love,
Of one beer drunken slob for another.”
– Irish Ballad

“May the roof above us never fall in.
And may the friends gathered below it never fall out.”
– Irish Blessing

“Laughter is brightest where food is best.”
– Irish Proverb

“May God hold you in the palm of His hand.”
– Irish Proverb

“‘Tis better to buy a small bouquet and give to your friend this very day,
Than a bushel of roses white and red to lay on his coffin after he’s dead.”
– Irish proverb

“Mothers hold their children‘s hands for just a little while…
And their hearts forever.”
– Irish proverb

“A quarrel is like buttermilk: once it’s out of the churn, the more you shake it, the more sour it grows.”
– Irish Proverb

“Always remember to forget, the friends that proved untrue. But never forget to remember those that have stuck by you!”
– Irish proverb

“Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege.”
– Irish proverb

“The future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves.”
– Irish proverb

“Irish diplomacy is the ability to tell a man to go to hell so that he looks forward to making the trip.”
– Irish saying

“There are only two kinds of people in the world, The Irish and those who wish they were.”
– Irish saying

“The same hand that can write a beautiful poem, can knock you out with one punch—that’s Poetic Justice.”
– Irish Wayne Kelly

“Never Fight ugly people—they have nothing to Lose.”
– Irish Wayne Kelly

“Boxers, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.”
– Irish Wayne Kelly

“One wonders in this place, why anyone is left in Dublin, or London, or Paris where it would be better, one would think to live in a tent or hut, with this magnificent sea and sky, and to breathe this wonderful air which is like wine in one’s teeth.”
– J. M. Synge

“When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Ireland.”
– J. P. Dunleavy

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