«St.Patrick’s Day quotations»

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Winston Churchill

An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth.

Irish Saying

St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic.

Adrienne Cook

Every St. Patrick’s Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

Shane Leslie

For ’tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray,

And it’s green, green, green, all the happy night and day;

Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall,

And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all.

Mary Elizabeth Blake

What color should be seen

Where our fathers’ homes have been

But their own immortal Green?

Author Unknown

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

Edna O’Brien

When Irish eyes are smiling,

Sure ’tis like the morn in spring.

In the lilt of Irish laughter

You can hear the angels sing

When Irish hearts are happy

All the world seems bright and gay

And when Irish eyes are smiling

Sure, they steal your heart away.

Chaucey Olcott and George Graff, Jr.

When law can stop the blades of grass from growin’ as they grow,

An’ when the leaves in summer time their color dare not show,

Then I will change the color, too, I wear in my caubeen;

But till that day, plaise God, I’ll stick to the Wearin’ o’ the Green.

Author Unknown

May the blessing of light be on you - light without and light within.

Old Celtic Blessing

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

Author Unknown

May luck be our companion

May friends stand by our side

May history remind us all

Of Ireland’s faith and pride.

May God bless us with happiness

May love and faith abide.

Irish Blessing

May you always walk in sunshine.

May you never want for more.

May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.

Irish Blessing

May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door.

Irish Blessing

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

May your blessings outnumber

The shamrocks that grow,

And may trouble avoid you

Wherever you go.

Irish Blessing

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,

May good luck pursue you each morning and night.

Irish Blessing

O, the red rose may be fair,

And the lily statelier;

But my shamrock, one in three

Takes the very heart of me!

Katherine Tynan

The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick – who was an Irishman only by adoption.

Stephen Gwynn

May you live to be a hundred years,

With one extra year to repent.

Irish Blessing

For each petal on the shamrock

This brings a wish your way -

Good health, good luck, and happiness

For today and every day.

Author Unknown

When after the Winter alarmin’,

The Spring steps in so charmin’,

So fresh and arch

In the middle of March,

Wid her hand St. Patrick’s arm on...

Alfred Percival Graves

May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and for evermore.

St. Patrick

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

Irish Saying

Oh, the music in the air!

An’ the joy that’s ivrywhere -

Shure, the whole blue vault of heaven is wan grand triumphal arch,

An’ the earth below is gay

Wid its tender green th’-day,

Fur the whole world is Irish on the Seventeenth o’ March!

Thomas Augustin Daly