Irish Quotes and Sayings
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
June 30th, 2009 at 5:22 am
God created whiskey to keep the irish from conquering the world.
December 29th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
i have a thought If you drink you get drunk, if you get drunk you fall a sleep. If you fall a sleep you commit no sins. If you commit no sins you go to heaven. So lets Drink and go to Heaven.
December 12th, 2008 at 10:39 am
at dinner when I was young We were told to shut your mouth and eat your dinner
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:39 am
these are okaiiii
October 7th, 2008 at 7:03 am
my mother always says wen she was young an her family were fed from dinner,,her father would say….you need”nt care where night falls now……..your full…or he wud say..that will keep the dog from the door..another way of explaining it..
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:35 am
here is an addition for one of the above quotes
“Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom[, or else complete obliviousness].”
i thought that seemed pretty accurate and would fit in well
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:59 pm
my grandad alwalys said you cant get old without geting cute. he also said you can never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn. fact.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:18 am
“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”
- George Bernard Shaw
May 31st, 2008 at 9:16 am
“It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s simply that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”
- Brendan Behan
May 31st, 2008 at 9:13 am
“Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country’s most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from one who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation.”
- George Washington, speaking of Ireland’s support for America during the revolution.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
your so backwards, you may aswell be irish
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:24 pm
shut your face and you’ll open it again
March 10th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
These are good