| ABOUT
IRELAND:
QUOTATIONS
& LITERARY EXTRACTS
Education is not filling
a bucket, but lighting a fire. W. B. Yeats
The intellect is forced to choose: Perfection of the life,
or of the work. W. B. Yeats
"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces
but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers."
John F. Kennedy
I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo....
They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have
a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it."
John B. Keane
"Our greatest glory
is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Oliver Goldsmith
Life is no brief candle to
me. It is a sort of splendid torch
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
I have a total irreverence
for anything connected with society except that which makes
the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and
the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier
in the summer. Brendan Behan
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
A life making mistakes is
not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent
doing nothing at all. G.B. Shaw
I'm troubled, I'm dissatisfied.
I'm Irish! Marianne Moore
Some cause happiness wherever
they go; others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde
No human being believes that
any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself
is up. Robert Lynd
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to
its scarcity. Samuel Butler
The Irish are a fair people;
they never speak well of one another. Samuel Johnson
Every man of genius is considerably
helped by being dead. Robert Lynd
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
There is an Irish way of
paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths
which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
Katherine Tynan Hinkson
A lament in one ear, maybe,
but always a song in the other. Sean O'Casey
At a dinner party one should
eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham
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
Newspapers are unable, seemingly,
to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse
of civilisation. G.B Shaw
A man who loses his money
gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something
better. G.B 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. G.B Shaw
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream
things that never were and ask why not. G.B Shaw
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
Old Irish Proverb
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