As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point in the wrong direction!

Irish blessing

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Danny McGoorty Irish Pool Player

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't seen the joke yet.

Oliver Herford

He was a bold man who first ate a Haggis.

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Men are like bagpipes no sound comes from them till they're full.

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Charity begins at home, but shouldn't end there.

Scottish proverb

May the roof above you never fall in, and may we friends gathered below never fall out.

Irish blessing

Did you hear about the Irish boomerang? It doesn't come back, but it sings sad songs about why it can't.

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If you want praise die, If you want blame get married.

Irish proverb

May you live as long as you want. And never want as long as you live.

Irish toast

The most beautiful music of all is the music of what happens.

Irish proverb

'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.

Irish proverb

Michael and I grew old together. But at times, when we laughed, we grew young.

Jackie O'Shea (Waking Ned Devine)

A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.

Irish proverb

A light heart lives long.

Irish proverb

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.

Irish proverb

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.

Irish proverb

Better to be quarrelling than lonesome.

Irish proverb

May all who love the Lord, love you and those who don't love you, may the Lord give them a limp so you can see them coming.

Irish blessing

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.

Irish blessing

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish proverb

For 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

Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet.

Welsh proverb

A friend's eye is a good mirror

Celtic proverb

Wishing you always walls for the wind, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, and the love and laughter of those you hold dear.

Celtic Toast

May God be with you and bless you. May you see your children's children. May you be poor in misfortunes and rich in blessings. May you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.

Irish Marriage Blessing

May joy and peace surround you, contentment latch your door, and happiness be with you now and bless you evermore.

Irish Toast

May the best ye've ever seen be the worst ye'll ever see. May a moose ne'er leave yer girnal wi' a tear drap in his e'e. May ye aye keep hale an' herty till ye're auld eneuch tae dee. May ye aye be just as happy ads we wish ye aye tae be.

Scottish Toast

Always remember to forget the friends that proved untrue. But never forget to remember those who have stuck by you.

Celtic Proverb

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw

May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door.

Celtic Proverb

May the Lord keep you in His hand and never close His fist too tight.

Celtic Proverb

If God send you down a stony path, may He give you strong shoes.

Irish Blessing

To be red-haired is better than to be without a head.

Celtic Saying

Ireland, it's the one place on earth
That heaven has kissed
With melody, mirth,
And meadow and mist.

Irish Saying

Man is incomplete until he marries. After that, he is finished.

Irish Saying

'Tis better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money!

Irish Saying

Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last.

Irish Saying

God made time, but man made haste.

Irish Saying

You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Celtic Saying

Well, Tommy, he said, I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die 'til I shoot you.

James Joyce, Dubliners (but don't get the idea that Dubliners is funny; it's mainly depressing)

For God'’s sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

Attributed to British Home Secretary, Reginald Maudling, as his plane left N. Ireland, July 1970

Bless O Lord the food we are about to eat,
And we pray you O God may it be good for our body and our soul.
And if there is any poor creature hungry or thirsty walking the road
May God send him in to us so that we can share the good with him
Just as God shares his gifts with all of us.

Irish Grace

I would like to have the men of Heaven
In my own house
With vats of good cheer
Laid out for them.
I would like a great lake of beer
For the King of Kings
I would like to be watching Heaven's family
Drinking it through all eternity.

Irish Prayer

In Dublin's fair city
where the girls are so pretty
I once met a girl named sweet Molly Malone
and she wheeled her wheel barrow
through the streets broad and narrow
singing cockles and mussels alive alive oh

Traditional Song

Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege.

Irish Proverb

May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten.

Irish Blessing

Cead mile failte (kaid meel-aa fawl-cha)

Gaelic for "one hundred thousand welcomes"

All ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush.

Belfast native C.S. Lewis

Out for lunch. If not back by five, out for dinner also.

Sign on a Kinsale, Ireland shop

Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick.

Samuel Beckett

God then made man. The Italians for their beauty. The French for their cuisine. The Welsh for their voices. The Germans for their cars. And on and on until He looked at what He had created and said, "This is all very well, but no-one is having fun. I'll have to make an Irishman."

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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey

When asked what race makes the best soldiers: "The Scotch who came to this country by way of Ireland. They have all the dash of the Irish in taking a position and all the stubbornness of the Scotch in holding it."

Robert E. Lee

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here.
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Robert Burns

Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose.

Irish Proverb

In Ireland 100 miles is a long way, but in America 100 years is a long time.

Irish bartender

Visitor to a pub in Ireland: I come from New England.
Irish barfly: Badly needed!

from the novel Shannon by Frank Delaney