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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist
Life
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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Bendan Behan
Funny
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May you only grow old in the face. Be treasured and cared for with grace.
Irish Blessing
Irish Blessing
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Sometimes one day changes everything; sometimes years change nothing.
Author Unknown
New Start
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May your day be touched by a bit of Irish luck, brightened by a
song in your heart and warmed by the smiles of the people you love.
Irish Saying
Smile
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On the Irish ladder of success there's always some one on the rung above
using your head to steady himself.
Author Unknown
Success
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A kind word never broke anyone's mouth.
Irish Proverb
Kindness
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May the Good Lord take a liking to you... but not too soon!
Irish Saying
Encouraging
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Life is like a cup of tea, it's all in how you make it!
Irish Saying
Funny Proverbs
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I'm Irish. We think sideways.
Spike Milligan
Cute Quotes
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Grandchildren are gifts of God. It is God's way of compensating us for growing old.
Irish Saying
Grandmother
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The Irish have a sweet tooth. And that's a good thing, because it has been the inspiration for some wonderful desserts
that allow us to end our meal on a happy and sweet note.
Jean LeGrand, Irish Treats - 30 Dessert Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day
Inspirational Quotes
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The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more
importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
Thomas Moore, Irish Actor
Home
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If only wishing it made it so.
Author Unknown
Wishes
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It's a good deed to forget a bad joke.
Brendan Behan, Irish Republican, poet, short story writer
Good
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke, Irish statesman
Ambition
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Anyone can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, Irish Playwright
Friend
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May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.
Funny Birthday Quotes
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As you ramble through life, whatever be your goal;
keep your eye upon the doughnut, and not upon the hole.
Irish Saying
Goals
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Irish history stretches back into the dark days of the Celts,
yet there is light, laughter and a sense of laissez-faire in the Irish men
and women of today.
Richard Benson, Irish Wit and Wisdom
Laughter
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Grant me a sense of humor, Lord, the saving grace to see a joke,
to win some happiness from life, and pass it on to other folks.
Irish Prayer
Humor
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Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep,
tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made
by man that life is worth living.
Sean O'Casey, Irish Dramatist
Live Life
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Here's to a fellow who smiles when life runs along like a song.
And here's to the lad who can smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Irish Saying
Smile Poems
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Whatever the explanation, Irish quotations offer a delightful
way to taste the essence of a rich history that has been, by turns, epic,
curious, hilarious and sad.
Robert Sullivan, Unusual Irish Quotes and Quotations
Quotations
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These things, I warmly wish for you -
Someone to love, some work to do, a bit of o' sun, a bit o' cheer.
And a guardian angel always near.
Irish Saying
Angel
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What the child sees, the child does. What the child does, the child is.
Irish Saying
Children
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May the holes in your nets be no larger than the fish in it.
Good Day
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You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion
for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom,
then our children will win by a better deed.
Patrick Henry Pearse, Irish Teacher
Freedom
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Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself
with less reserve than you'd prefer.
Thomas Moore, Irish Actor
Love
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Keep love in your heart.
A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are all dead.
Oscar Wilde - Irish Dramatist
Quotes about Love and Life
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The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
Irish Saying
Music
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet
Communication
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
James Joyce, Irish novelist
Teacher
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist, essayist
Age
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It's no use giving good advice unless you have the wisdom to go with it.
Giving
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The hands are there for friendship, the heart is there for love.
Friendship
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A lie is an excuse guarded.
Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist, essayist
Excuses
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be
found everywhere.
Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman
Wealth
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The Irish consider retirement the time to kick back and enjoy life to the fullest.
Thomas O'Leary
Retirement
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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright
Quote of the Day
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A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.
Irish Proverb
Happy
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A Christmas wish. . . .May you never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten.
Irish Blessing
Christmas Quotes
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May you be at the gates of heaven an hour before the devil knows you are dead.
Irish Saying
Prayer Poems
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Play every match as if it's your last, but play well enough so that it isn't.
Jack Lynch
Effort
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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses
to grow sharper.
William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet
Patience
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(St.) Patrick answered God's call to "spread the word of Christianity"
to Ireland, and so, returned to Ireland,
the land that enslaved him.
Hillbilly Housewife, On St. Patrick's Day Everyone Can Be Irish
God
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We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes
of doubt, for faith
is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man
can make to God, and therefore
it must be offered in sincerity.
William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet
Faith
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May you live to be 100 years with one extra year to repent.
James Joyce, Irish novelist
Birthday
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Some people are moulded by their aspirations, others by their hostilities.
Elizabeth Bowen, Irish Novelist
Motivational
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Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters;
but our strength is the forced fruit.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist
Character
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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist
Purpose
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory,
and we should not trust the weaker.
Abraham (Bram) Stoker, Irish author
Knowledge
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing
it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist
Cute Quotes about Life
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
Brendan Behan, Irish Republican, poet, short story writer
Inspirational Stories
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and
are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce, Irish novelist
Mistake
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Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
William John Banville, Irish novelist
Preparation
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong.
It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist, essayist
Wise
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I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding
that the most important things in life are health, family and friends,
and the time to spend on them.
Kenneth Branagh, Irish actor
Time
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins
to weep, somewhere else another stops.
The same is true of the laugh.
Samuel Beckett, Irish Novelist
Quality
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, Irish Playwright
Beautiful
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The difficulty in life is the choice.
George Moore, Irish Novelist
Choices
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
James Joyce, Irish Novelist, Poet
Quotes about Books
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist
Poems about Happiness
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May the love and joy we share be with us ever after.
Author Unknown
Joy
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I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past.
So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does
paralyze you.
Kenneth Branagh, Irish actor
Inspirational Sayings
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If you do your best, don't mind the rest.
Best
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The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat,
something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brendan Behan, Irish Writer
Positive Life Quotes
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May the sunshine of comfort shine through the gloom of despair.
Sunshine
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It is sad to look at happiness only through another's eyes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist
Be Yourself
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When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen, Irish Novelist
Short Love Quotes
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To appear rich, we become poor.
Marguerite Blessington, an Irish novelist
Motivational Quotes about Life
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true.
Joyce Lunel Cary, Irish Novelist
Genius
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We learn from failure, not from success!
Abraham (Bram) Stoker, Irish author
Failure
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We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible.
To have real conversations with
people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves
courage and risk.
Thomas Moore, Irish Actor
Courage
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into
a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.
Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, Irish Playwright Irish Quotes and Sayings
Best Friend Poems
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but
those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
James Joyce, Irish Author
Attitude
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May grace and peace be multiplied to you, through the knowledge
of God, through knowing what God knows and believing what
God believes ….about you.
Phelim Doherty, By the Grace of God
Peace
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett, Irish Novelist
Never Quit Quotes
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Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them
more bearable.
Bram Stoker, Irish Author
Sympathy
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Ireland has one of the world's heaviest rainfalls.
If you see an Irishman with a tan, it's rust.
Dave Allen, an Irish Comedian
Funny Poems
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It's my rule never to lose my temper till it would be dethrimental to keep it.
Seán O'Casey, Irish Dramatist
Anger
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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice,
but there are in every generation those who make it with joy
and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.
Patrick Henry Pearse, Irish Teacher
Poems about Life
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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.
Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, Irish Playwright
Quotes about Change
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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Oliver Goldsmith, Irish Author
Question
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Ireland is the only place in the world where procrastination takes on a sense of urgency.
Dave Allen, an Irish Comedian
Procrastination
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There is no such thing as bad publicity - except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan, Irish Republican, poet, short story writer
Cute Life Quotes
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Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love
never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.
Irish Toast
Health
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If your Irish, it doesn't matter where you go you'll always find family.
Victoria Smurfit - Irish Actress
Family
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