| title | author |
| Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. | William Butler Yeats |
| To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. | Reba McEntire |
| I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. | C. S. Lewis |
| I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it. | Denzel Washington |
| Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. | John Boyle O’Reilly |
| You’ve got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket – you might have caught a fish. | Darrell Royal |
| Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see. | George William Russell |
| Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me. | Saint Patrick |
| Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. | Joseph Brodsky |
| Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. | William Butler Yeats |
| You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it. | Jimmy Dean |
| I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. | Oliver Goldsmith |
| I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I’m on and to relish each day as a gift. | James McGreevey |
| There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. | John Millington Synge |
| Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. | Thomas Moore |
| Luck is believing you’re lucky. | Tennessee Williams |
| Above all else, deep in my soul, I’m a tough Irishwoman. | Maureen O’Hara |
| If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. | Brendan Behan |
| We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. | Winston Churchill |
| Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. | Pope John Paul II |
| Being Irish, I always had this love of words. | Kenneth Branagh |
| If you’re Irish, it doesn’t matter where you go – you’ll find family. | Victoria Smurfit |
| I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. | Brian Dennehy |
| That’s what the holidays are for – for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn’t that the Irish way? | Lara Flynn Boyle |
| Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. | Socrates |
| I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely. | Anne Enright |
| Every St. Patrick’s Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. | Shane Leslie |
| Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. | Dave Barry |
| Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. | Colin Farrell |
