Irish Quotations | Page 4

I'll let somebody else sort that part of it, I guess. But a lot of 'em seem pretty applicable, you know? Mrs. McGrath is basically an Irish anti-war song, but it's ripped right out of the headlines everyday today.

I have the greatest respect for the Irish guys and really look forward to racing against them,

He would nurse a beer through an evening of Irish revelry, affable and jovial, and carry his paralytically drunk companions home to bed without any disturbance to his life-long calm.

Because there is a sort of amorphous, sort of darkness at the heart of things, because there is a certain kind of complacency and individualism.

I don't think most people think of our type of music as catchy but it is. It's just like a polka. Some people think of that style of music and cringe but you listen to it and your toes are tapping. The same thing goes for Irish music.

They came from all backgrounds. Some had an Irish heritage, but not necessarily so.

They asked us to put together a set of Irish music for one of the stages in 2004. Our first gig was a massive one, partly because it was raining hard and we were performing at one of the only stages located beneath a tent.

It lets the music breathe a little better. Melody is so important to traditional Irish music. I want to let it breathe and not cover it up.

It was a German tradition to hand out holy cards at funerals. The Belgians and the French distributed them on feast days and also passed them out at first Holy Communion services. The Irish and British loved Marian and Christmas-themed holy cards,

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.

The British and Irish remain hopeful all the same that some of the presidential stardust will rub off.

The freedom of the sand seemed to give a stronger spirit of revolt, and some of the animals were only caught after a dangerous struggle.

You've got economic dynamics that are superior in the Irish market than ... in central Europe and Germany, so there's a bigger argument to be buying Irish equities." ()

The English and Americans dislike only some" Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think.

The first year, we planted 20 sacks of Irish potatoes. But the back water came in - we didn't have a levee then - it took most of the crop. We only made enough to pay for the fertilizer and the seed. So, we planted 25 sacks the next year but the same thing happened. For two years we didn't make anything.

The Irish say, you know, 'the merry-hearted boys make the best of all men,'

The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish

The Irish stranglehold on the Champion Hurdle betting remains as strong as ever; in fact, right now, Colm Murphy on his own has a stronger hand than all the British-based trainers.

And I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

The figure is down somewhat from quarter one of 2005, but you have to remember there was a number of individual spectacular deals in the period including an 18 million investment in Irish Broadband. Overall we expect this year to be flat or even a bit better when compared to 2005.

The company considered several attractive sites in other countries and chose Ireland due to its thriving biotechnology community, infrastructure to support biologics manufacturing, emphasis on education, and attractive business climate, as well as the support we received from the Irish Government and IDA Ireland.

The concerns expressed in the draft recommendation are based on the wrong premise. The Commission's assessment and the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines advises Ireland to seek to achieve economic stability. This is exactly what the Irish government has sought to do in the budget in a number of ways," ()

The trophy is coming back to France so I am very happy about that. The Irish win their Triple Crown so it's a good day for rugby.

They may have had strong bonds to the land, but Irish peasants were among the most inefficient farmers in Europe.

They don't play Irish music, but at that point, I don't think many people will notice.

It seems to me there is a real revival of Irish culture. The culture seems very much alive.

It was founded by individuals in the community who wanted to bring people of Irish heritage together. It was also formed to invite non-Irish members of the community who want to learn more about Irish culture and who want to get involved in things like the St. Patrick's Day parade. Membership is open to anyone, Irish or not.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

It was a real neighborhood school. I mean, we used to call it the Irish Catholic ghetto. And there is nothing ghetto about it, because as we realize now, we lived a very upper middle class lifestyle.

We were offered a place in Stanford, where an Irish (specialty) shop is now. The owners of it are keen for us to go in. They're retiring. But it would be too far away. With our youngest just 6, it would be too far to go.

It's going to be a good show. The type where people will want to get up and dance in the aisles. We'll also have Irish dancers from the two local academies and the Highland dancers will perform.

It's going to a whole lot of fun, and we want everybody to come down and join us. We're really excited about it, and we're hoping the luck of the Irish will be with us in providing beautiful weather.

This is very Irish weather, but it didn't dampen our spirits.

How many Irishmen are there who would purchase material prosperity at such a price? It is exactly such a question as this and the answer to it that shows the difference between the English and Irish race. Nine Englishmen out of ten would jump to make the exchange, and I firmly believe that nine Irishmen out of ten would indignantly refuse it.

How is it that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherished idols and unclean things, they are lately become a people of the Lord, and are called children of God; the sons of. the Irish and the daughters of the chieftains are to be seen as monks and virgins of Christ.

I don't worry about it, ... I just worked with Neil Jordan on 'Breakfast On Pluto,' where I play an Irish transvestite singer in a London cabaret.'

You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

The legal cases against these Irish citizens have nothing at all to do with the (peace) process in Ireland,

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Irish poets, learn your trade,Sing whatever is well made.

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

Man can embody truth bet he cannot know it.

To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful.

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.

These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception.

A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.