Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Saint Patrick was a gentleman
Who through strategy and stealth
Drove all the snakes from Ireland
Here's a drinkee to his health!
But not too many drinkees
Lest we lose ourselves and then...
Forget the good Saint Patrick
And see them snakes again!

There are only two kinds of people in the world, The Irish and those who wish they were.

An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
Jimmy Dean

Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
Saint Patrick

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Reba McEntire

Luck is believing you're lucky.
Tennessee Williams

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
Denzel Washington

A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.
John O'Donohue

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.
Darrell Royal

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.
James McGreevey

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

The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.
John O'Donohue

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
John Boyle O'Reilly

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
Victoria Smurfit

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
Shane Leslie

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
Joseph Brodsky

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
Colin Farrell

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Brendan Behan

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
Thomas Moore

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
George William Russell

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
Lara Flynn Boyle

St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic.  
Adrienne Cook

Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick's Day consists of the night of the seventeenth of March flavored strongly with the morning of the eighteenth.

Oh, Paddy, dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round?
The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground!
No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his colour can't be seen,
For there's a cruel law agin' the Wearin' o' the green.

May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.

For 'tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray,
And it's green, green, green, all the happy night and day;
Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall,
And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all.
Mary Elizabeth Blake

The world is... is... is green!