As you slide down the banister of life,
May the splinters never point in the wrong direction!
Dance as if no one were watching,
Sing as if no one were listening,
And live every day as if it were your last.
For each petal on the shamrock
This brings a wish your way -
Good health, good luck, and happiness
For today and every day.
Go mbeannai Dia duit (May God Bless You)
Here’s to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
If you’re enough lucky to be Irish... You’re lucky enough!
I’m looking over a four leaf clover
That I overlooked before
One leaf is sunshine, the second is rain,
Third is the roses that grow in the lane.
No need explaining the one remaining
Is somebody I adore.
I’m looking over a four leaf clover
That I overlooked before.
Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter
Lullabies, dreams, and love ever after.
Poems and songs with pipes and drums
A thousand welcomes when anyone comes.
That’s the Irish for you!
May God grant you many years to live,
For sure he must be knowing
The earth has angels all to few
And Heaven is overflowing.
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.
May the best day of your past
Be the worst day of your future.
May the lilt of lush laughter lighten ever road,
May the midst of Irish magic shorten every road.
May you taste the sweetest pleasures
that fortune ever bestowed,
And may all your friends remember
all the favors you are owed.
May the wind at your back
Not be the result
Of the corned beef and cabbage
You had for lunch.
May those who love us, love us
And those who don’t love us,
May God turn their hearts
And if he can’t turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles
So we will know them by their limping!
May you always have
Walls for the winds,
A roof for the rain,
Tea beside the fire,
Laughter to cheer you,
Those you love near you,
And all your heart might desire!
May you be in
Heaven a half hour before the
Devil knows you’re dead!
May you have:
A world of wishes at your command
God and his angels close at hand
Friends and family their love impart,
And Irish blessings in you heart.
May you live as long as you want,
And never want as long as you live.
May you live to be a hundred years
With one extra year to repent.
May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.
May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.
God is good, but never dance in a small boat.
May your neighbours respect you,
Troubles neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And Heaven accept you.
May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night,
My wild Irish rose
The sweetest flower that grows
You may search everywhere
But none can compare to my wild Irish rose
My wild Irish rose
The sweetest flower that grows
Someday for my sake she may let me take
A bloom from my wild Irish rose.
O Ireland isn’t it grand you look
like a bride in her rich adornin?
And with all the pent up love of my heart
I bid you the top o’ the mornin!
There are many good reasons for drinking,
One has just entered my head.
If a man doesn’t drink when he’s living,
How in the hell can he drink when he’s dead?
There’s a dear little plant that grows in our isle,
’Twas St. Patrick himself, sure, that sets it;
And the sun of his labor with pleasure did smile,
And with dew from his eye often wet it.
It grows through the bog, through the brake, through the mireland,
And they call it the dear little Shamrock of Ireland.
These things I warmly wish to you-
Someone to love
Some work to do
A bit o’ sun
A bit o’ cheer
And a guardian angel always near.
’Tis better to buy a small bouquet
And give to your friend this very day,
Than a bushel of roses white and red
To lay on his coffin after he’s dead.
When Irish eyes are smiling,
Tis like a morn in spring.
With a lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing
When Irish hearts are happy
All the world is bright and gay
When Irish eyes are smiling
Sure, they steal your heart away.
I'm Irish. We think sideways. - Spike Milligan
The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley
I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. - Colin Farrell
When I count my blessings, I count you twice. - Irish Proverb
The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico. - Pierce Brosnan
I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. - Robert Vaughn
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. - Gregory Peck
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins
May your troubles be less and your blessings be more. - Irish Blessing
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. - Brendan Behan
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. - Unknown
God invented whiskey to prevent the Irish from ruling the world. - Irish Saying
Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. - Fiona Shaw
Failure is necessary to succeed and will become your biggest blessing. - Lynn Bardowski
What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart? - Unknown
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit
Wherever you go and whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you. - Irish Blessings
It's a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. - Andrew Young
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
Giving back to society and community enriches our lives, making it a double blessing. - Kellie Sullivan
We failed, but in the good providence of God, apparent failure often proves a blessing. - Robert E Lee
I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big. - Bill O'Reilly
The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. - Joel Osteen
The trouble with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, with absolutely no talent. - Hugh Leonard
Irish boomerang: It doesn't come back, it just sings sad songs about how much it wants to. - Unknown
I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. - Kate Flannery
Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. - Thomas Kettle
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Burn everything British," he once advised his Irish countrymen, "except their coal." - Jonathan Swift
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer. - Liam Neeson
Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. - Tug McGraw
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan
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