As you slide down the banister of life, I'm Irish. We think sideways. - Spike Milligan Paddy O Furniture: Irish lawn chairs - Daffynitions joe-ks.com The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch. - James Boswell If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. - Brendan Behan I'm walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea. - Spike Milligan You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer. - Hal Roach Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. - Bob Geldof Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. - Fiona Shaw The Irish are a very fair people, they never speak well of one another. - Unknown Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. - James Nesbitt Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. - Colin Farrell 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 A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority. - Leo Baeck What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily we do our eyes. - Georg C. Lichtenberg There are only two kinds of people in the world: the Irish and those who wish they were. - Irish Saying The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. - P.J. O'Rourke There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. - Maeve Binchy The trouble with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, with absolutely no talent. - Hugh Leonard I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. - Robin Williams Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. - Thomas Kettle Definition of an Irish fact: That which tells you not what is the case but what you want to hear. - Hugh Kenner The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet. - Oliver Herford That the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from heaven. - Hideki Tojo 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 That's the Irish people all over - they treat a joke as a serious thing, and a serious thing as a joke. - Sean O'Casey I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.' - Kevin Barry God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith. - Max Lucado We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad. For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. - G K Chesterton Isn't it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an' the English brought in the fleas. - Frank McCourt Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. - Brendan Behan Today will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Take time to care. Let your words heal, and not wound. - Unknown I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner. - Liam Neeson The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. - Winston Churchill Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien see also Irish & St. Patrick’s Day Sections Green Beards Irish Alzheimers Irish Bar Irish Birth Control Irish Drink Irish Exam Irish Flood Irish Rugby Fans Irish Sky Garden Crater Irish Virgin Little Leprechaun St. Patrick’s Day Joe-ks St. Patrick’s Day Riddles St. Patrick’s Dog Swimming Buddies Teddy Bear Dance The Fert What’s Under The Kilt? |
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