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St. Patrick's Day

"St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time -- a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic." - Adrienne Cook "This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." - Sigmund Freud (about the Irish) "Ireland is rich in literature that understands a soul's yearnings, and dancing that understands a happy heart." - Margaret Jackson "The problem with Ireland is that it’s a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent." - Hugh Leonard "Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat." - Alex Levine "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!"  - John Locke "The Exile's Return" "Maybe it's bred in the bone, but the sound of pipes is a little bit of heaven to some of us." - Nancy O'Keeefe "In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs." - Sir John Pentland Mahaffy "I'm troubled, I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish." - Marianne Moore "Spenser's Ireland" "On she went, and her maiden smile In safety lighted her round the Green Isle; And blest forever was she who relied Upon Erin's honor and Erin's pride." - Thomas Moore "There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting." - John Millington Synge "A drink precedes a story." - Irish Proverb "A friend's eye is a good mirror." - Irish Proverb "A hen is heavy when carried far" - Irish Proverb "A hound's food is in its legs." - Irish Proverb "A lock is better than suspicion" - Irish Proverb "A silent mouth is melodious." - Irish Proverb "A trade not properly learned is an enemy." - Irish Proverb "Age is honorable and youth is noble." - Irish Proverb "As the big hound is, so will the pup be." - Irish Proverb "Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy." - Irish Proverb "Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die" - Irish Proverb "Even a small thorn causes festering." - Irish Proverb Good as drink is, it ends in thirst." - Irish Proverb "He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you." - Irish Proverb "He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday." - Irish Proverb "If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn." - Irish Proverb "If you want to be criticized, marry." - Irish Proverb "Instinct is stronger than upbringing." - Irish Proverb "It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself." - Irish Proverb "It is a long road that has no turning" - Irish Proverb "It is better to exist unknown to the law" - Irish Proverb "It is not a secret if it is known by three people." - Irish Proverb "It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for." - Irish Proverb "It is the good horse that draws its own cart." - Irish Proverb "It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal." - Irish Proverb "It takes time to build castles. Rome wan not built in a day." - Irish Proverb "It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while" - Irish Proverb "Lack of resource has hanged many a person." - Irish Proverb "Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout." - Irish Proverb "May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son." - Irish Proverb "Mere words do not feed the friars." - Irish Proverb "Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat." - Irish Proverb "Necessity is the mother of invention." - Irish Proverb "Necessity knows no law." - Irish Proverb "Need teaches a plan." - Irish Proverb "Patience is poultice for all wounds." - Irish Proverb "Youth does not mind where it sets its foot." - Irish Proverb "You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." - Irish Proverb "People live in each other's shelter." - Irish Proverb "Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat." - Irish Proverb "Quiet people are well able to look after themselves." - Irish Proverb "The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail." - Irish Proverb "The hole is more honorable than the patch." - Irish Proverb "The light heart lives long." - Irish Proverb "The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot." - Irish Proverb "The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely." - Irish Proverb "The raggy colt often made a powerful horse." - Irish Proverb "The smallest thing outlives the human being." - Irish Proverb "The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches." - Irish Proverb "The well fed does not understand the lean." - Irish Proverb "The work praises the man." - Irish Proverb "The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey." - Irish Proverb "There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave." - Irish Proverb "There is no fireside like your own fireside." - Irish Proverb "There is no luck except where there is discipline." - Irish Proverb "There is no need like the lack of a friend." - Irish Proverb "There is no strength without unity." - Irish Proverb "Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness." - Irish Proverb "Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst." - Irish Proverb "Time is a great story teller." - Irish Proverb "Two shorten the road." - Irish Proverb "Two thirds of the work is the semblance." - Irish Proverb "Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab." - Irish Proverb "When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak." - Irish Proverb "When fire is applied to a stone it cracks." - Irish Proverb "When the apple is ripe it will fall." - Irish Proverb "When the drop (drink) is inside, the sense is outside." - Irish Proverb "When the liquor was gone the fun was gone." - Irish Proverb "Wine divulges truth." - Irish Proverb "You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." - Irish Proverb "You must live with a person to know a person. If you want to know me come and live with me." - Irish Proverb "Youth sheds many a skin. The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever." - Irish Proverb "We have always found the Irish a bit odd.  They refuse to be English" - Winston Churchhill "Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part." - Irish Blessing "Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish.” - Ted Whitehead