Quotes for St. Patrick’s Day

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Are you ready for St. Patrick’s Day? Do you want to add quotes to your social media posts? If you are searching for inspiration, consider the following quotes for St. Patrick’s Day.

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  1. “Be still and know that I am. Be still and know. Be still. Be.” – St. Patrick
  2. “Whether it’s St. Patrick’s Day or not, everyone has a little luck o’ the Irish in them.” – Laura Sommers
  3. “May you live as long as you want but never want as long as you live.” – Irish Blessing
  4. “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” —William Butler Yeats
  5. “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
  6. “Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.” —Colin Farrell
  7. “Don’t throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.” – Tim O’Brien
  8. “May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold—and at the end of your rainbows may you find a pot of gold.” – Old Irish Blessing
  9. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” —Thomas Jefferson
  10. “Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels.” —Nora Roberts
  11. “Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but if your name is Eisenhower, you’ve got to wear something green to show it.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower
  12. “Imagine if we were all magical leprechauns, and every wish ever made on a four-leaf clover obliged us to help others obtain their wishes. Now imagine if people simply lived like this were true.” —Richelle E. Goodrich
  13. “May the mist of Irish magic shorten every road, and may your friends remember the favors you are owed.” – Irish Blessing
  14. “I’m Irish!…When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.” —Morgan Llywelyn
  15. “Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.” —Fiona Shaw
  16. “​​May the leprechauns be near you, To spread luck along your way. And may all the Irish angels, Smile upon you St. Patrick’s Day” – Irish Blessing
  17. “Wishing you a pot o’ gold and all the joy your heart can hold.” – Unknown
  18. “Here is the enigma of Patrick: he looms large on the imaginative horizon of so many people, yet he saw himself as a Christian bishop from the embattled edge of a crumbling empire.” —Thomas O’Loughlin
  19. “Do you think anybody knows that I’m Irish?” —Niall Horan
  20. 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
  21. “Luck is believing you’re lucky.” —Tennessee Williams
  22. “It’s St. Paddy’s Day, everyone’s Irish tonight. Why don’t you just pull up a stool and have a drink with us?” —Norman Reedus in The Boondock Saints
  23. “You don’t believe in magic spells or longings coming true. Yet, head-to-toe you dress in green on Patty’s Day, you do.” —Richelle E. Goodrich
  24. “Luck is not chance, it’s toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.” –  Emily Dickinson
  25. “May the winds of fortune sail you, may you sail a gentle sea, may it always be the other guy who says this drink’s on me.” – Irish Blessing
  26. “I will tell you, my body immediately responds to being in Ireland because every single cell in my body says yes.” —Conan O’Brien
  27. “Ireland has always been the home of the dreamer, the poet and the storyteller.” —Jordan Richard
  28. “Be sure to wear green on March seventeen, or else Irish leprechauns pinch your bones clean!” —Richelle E. Goodrich
  29. “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” —William Butler Yeats
  30. “To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It’s the only thing that lasts, that’s worth working for, worth fighting for.” —Alexandra Ripley
  31. “There’s no sense to being Irish unless you know the world’s going to break your heart.” —Thomas Adcock
  32. “Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.” —Alex Levine
  33. “May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings beside your nursery door.” —Susi Hawke
  34. “That’s right, there’s free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone’s jealous.” —Kevin Hearne
  35. When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.” —Edna O’Brien
  36. “When you make a wee wish on a green four-leafed clover, may your belly stay full and your cup runneth over.” —Richelle E. Goodrich
  37. “Legend says that each leaf of the clover has a meaning: the first is for hope, the second for faith, the third for love and, if you can find a 4-leaf clover, the fourth leaf represents luck.” —Jean LeGrand
  38. “There are good ships and wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.” – Irish Toast
  39. “May the luck of the Irish possess you. May the devil fly off with your worries. May God bless you forever and ever.” – Irish Blessing
  40. “Lord, you’re Irish…Can you make things that don’t have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce.” —Cassandra Clare
  41. “May everything turn green today, except your gills!” —Lester B. Dill
  42. “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.” – Irish Blessing
  43. “St. Patrick had only got rid of the land snakes according to Nolan’s mother, but he had no power over the huge snakes calling themselves eels which came in on beaches all over the country.” —Maeve Binchy
  44. “Corned beef and cabbage and leprechaun men, colorful rainbows hide gold at their end.  Shamrocks and clovers with three leaves plus one, dress up in green—add a top hat for fun. Steal a quick kiss from the lasses in red, a tin whistle tune off the top of my head. Friends, raise a goblet and offer this toast—’The luck of the Irish and health to our host!'” —Richelle E. Goodrich
  45. “The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination.” —George Bernard Shaw
  46. “Slave, bishop and saint—it’s fair to say that the man we call Patrick had an unusual life.” —Marian Broderick
  47. “Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.” —Pope John Paul II

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Enjoy!

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