Irish quotes

A drunkard is a dead man, and all dead men are drunk.
- Yeats

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill

I spent 90% of my money on woman and drink. The rest I wasted.
- George Best

Beware of people who dislike cats.
- Anonymous

There can be no tradition without innovation.
- Earle Hitchner

Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.
- Anonymous

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
- John Millington Synge

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
- Lewis

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- Jonathan Swift

Great hate follows great love.
- Anonymous

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- C. S. Lewis

I am a drinker with a writing problem.
- Brendan Behan

If God shuts one door, He opens another.
- Anonymous

You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Anonymous

If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams
Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn
In the Pool they told us the story
How the English divided the land.
- John Lennon

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven’t seen the joke yet.
- Oliver Herford

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
- Sean Casey